Boasting a diverse marine ecosystem, Vietnam has the conditions necessary for seaweed farming to meet domestic demand. However, the industry is yet to be fully tapped.
don t think about seeing six buoys floating on the water, what is this what we re doing is testing the feasibility of different seaweed species that can be scaled up in southern california underneath the surface, i have a frame and it has lines going across it. there are so many applications of seaweed, i focus on food. i like feeding people. that s exactly what he did, tory and renowned chef, jo jo ruiz prepared a meal of fresh local aqua culture cuisine, an endangered native shellfish now being grown here at the port that was great. and seaweed, direct from tory s farm? it s kind of like eating freze but salty. seaweed production has increased globally by 75% in the past seven decades and in the u.s. seaweed farming is the fastest growing aqua culture
and around the world. but if we re even going to come close to replacing traditional plastic with seaweed plastic like this, then we re going to need to increase seaweed farming by billions of tonnes. and that s expensive. we have to consider the hundreds of billions that we have injected into the oil industry in order to create some efficient and good plastics over the last decades. we will need the same with the seaweed. and scientists say care must be taken to ensure seaweed farming doesn t harm our oceans. part of the sustainability aspects that we need to consider is making sure that we re not removing all of the seaweed in one go because that could essentially destroy the aquatic environment. seaweed could help reduce the amount of plastic in our oceans. but experts say we need other solutions to help. material is going to replace every single bit of plastic. so we need a diversity of solutions. seaweed is going to be one of them, but we need to use other types of materials from
DESPITE the fact that most farmers in Pemba engage in seaweed cultivation, most of them have not benefitted from the agricultural activity due to challenges of selling the crop at low prices.