Promising results in seaweed aquaculture trials

AN UNUSUAL harvest in west Cork this winter could help to deliver a multi-million euro industry.

According to the Bord Iascaigh Mhara (BIM), the Irish Fisheries Board, cultivated Laminaria digitata (a brown kelp seaweed) has been grown very successfully on long lines in Roaring Water Bay.

This winter’s harvest results are eagerly awaited, in a three-year project to grow three species of seaweed with valuable nutritional properties in an aquaculture environment.