ST. GEORGE, Maine (WABI) - Maine leads the nation in seaweed farming. There are kelp farms located across Casco Bay and along the Midcoast. Keith Miller of South Thomaston is a pioneer in kelp farming ...

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Another startup sees farmed kelp as a market opportunity — this time for use in skin care. Cold Current Kelp in Kittery grows kelp, extracts compounds from the seaweed and makes the a variety of skin ...

New environmental DNA tools can accurately and inexpensively quantify kelp-derived biomass in sediments below commercial kelp farms, according to research recently published in PLOS One. The new study ...

Seaweed and kelp are eaten by both humans and domestic animals all over the world. Several species are used in everything from cosmetics and food additives to fertilizers and medicines. However, ...

KITTERY, Maine (WMTW) — Seven months ago, Maine business partners Krista Rosen and Inga Potter were hauling in their harvest from their kelp farm off the coast of Kittery Point. Fast forward to ...

Tiffany Stephens, left, works at the Seagrove Kelp farm in Doyle Bay near Craig on April 14, 2021. (Photo by Jordan A. Hollarsmith/NOAA Fisheries, Alaska Fisheries Science Center) To optimists, the ...

Cruising by on a boat, it’s easy to miss Jake Patryn’s farm, which looks like nothing more than an unassuming row of red and white buoys floating just off the coast of Machias, Maine. The crop he and ...