Entrepreneur Jennifer O’Brien – founder and CEO of alt-seafood startup Sea & Believe – has teamed up with pioneering seaweed scientist Dr Maeve Edwards on a pilot project to cultivate the native Irish red seaweed Palmaria palmata (dulse) off the w…
A new report on the most exciting emerging market opportunities in the seaweed sector – which has been compiled for the World Bank by Hatch Innovation Services – has recently been published.
A recent study suggests that educating consumers about the ecosystem services provided by farmed seaweed will make them willing to pay more for seaweed-based products.
Having worked in biotechnology investment and then as a pioneering seaweed and mussel farmer, Paul Dobbins was persuaded to come out of retirement for the second time to work on WWF’s programmatic and investment work and he now intends to galvanise the fledgli…