Farming without any land......
......is the objective of new venture Algapelago (www.algapelago.com), which is aiming to turn Bideford Bay into a productive seaweed farm.
Seaweed is increasingly becoming recognised as a major resource, not just for its contents, used for food, pharmaceuticals and cosmetics, but also as a way of sequestering carbon from the atmosphere.
Algapelago's Olly Hicks outlined the world market for seaweed, approx. 35MTe pa at the moment with 97% in the Far East.