Opportunity for significant growth in seaweed sales

Seaweed farming offers Ireland the opportunity to become a producer of one of the EU’s fastest growing food categories.

It could also give Irish seafood sales a €10m a year boost by 2020, a Bord Iascaigh Mhara-hosted conference was told in Limerick.

The $6bn (€4.8bn) worldwide farmed seaweed industry is dominated by China and Japan, the global heavyweights in the industry.