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Dutch Seaweed Farmers Complete World’s First Offshore Mechanical Harvest
Peter Cluskey, The Irish Times Fisheries & Aquaculture
Dutch seaweed farmers have just completed the world’s first offshore mechanical harvest – marking the start of a dramatic expansion that could see 400sq km of territorial waters set aside by the government, with substantial funding from the European Union.
The aim of the expansion is to challenge the dominance of China and Indonesia in a global market worth €13.5 billion a year, according to the business magazine Fortune; Europe’s current production of 287,033 tonnes represents only 0.8 percent of the worldwide total.
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