The University of Waikato has achieved significant results in the latest funding round from the Ministry of Business, Innovation and Employment’s Endeavour Fund.
The first commercial planting of a native red New Zealand seaweed has been achieved off Tīkapa Moana Hauraki Gulf in the Coromandel. Fertile seedlings of Gigartina (Sarcothalia) atropurpurea have been grown on to twine attached around ropes in a seaweed growing trial...
Multi-species aquaculture farming is being trialled in Tasman Bay in a bid to help the sector expand and adapt to climate change. The Cawthron Institute-led programme off the coast of Motueka aimed to show scallops, oysters and seaweed could grow in open ocean...
Scientists from Nelson’s Cawthron Institute have joined a $5 million pilot aimed at creating a sustainable commercial seaweed industry in New Zealand. The scientists are conducting a seaweed-growing trial at a mussel farm off the coast of Motueka as part of...
