Angus MacDoughall has been harvesting seaweed on and off since he was 17 when his fishing work dried up. Now at 73, he still harvests three to four days each month. “It gets you out of the house ...
ZANZIBAR: AS the sun rises over Pemba Island in Tanzania, Shajia and other seaweed farmers head towards the water to harvest ...
Sunshine has given way to wind and rain, as the motorboat chugs through a fjord in the Faroe Islands. "Its a bit windy here," says Olavur Gregarsen. "We'll see how far we can get to the harvesting ...
Seaweed offers numerous health benefits, including rich nutrients and potential disease prevention properties.
From keeping oceans healthy to being used as an alternative to plastics, researchers believe seaweed has a multitude of uses ...
"If we harvest seaweed without having a management plan in place, we put these vulnerable ecosystems and the biodiversity ...
In the early morning hours, residents of Nam O fishing village in Da Nang City, central Vietnam gather with flashlights and gloves to harvest Porphyra seaweed. The collection season runs from October ...
Nearly 300 Penghu residents yesterday harvest seaweed on the uninhabited Kupo Island for the first time this winter. The small island is opened to seaweed harvesting before the Lunar New Year holiday ...
told Smart Harvest that the organisation was registered in 2012. With support from KMFRI, the group has found a new buyer who offers Sh30 per kilogramme of seaweed, up from an initial Sh9 per kilo.
Alex Kimathi, a researcher at KMFRI, says the farmers practice group-farming hence failed to harvest the crop due to social distancing protocol. He notes that seaweed farms in Kibuyuni and Tumbe ...