Sean Den Adel and Skye Steritz operate Noble Ocean Farms out of Cordova. (Photo courtesy Mark Titus) Sean Den Adel and his fiance Skye Steritz live in Cordova and are among a handful of small-scale ...

Although salmon farms help take pressure off wild stocks, the penned fish do produce a lot of waste which is concentrated at one location. A new farm is exploring a solution to that problem, by ...

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On a clear March afternoon, John Smet shut off the engine of his workboat as he approached his go-to wild kelp bed. It was high tide, so less kelp was pooling on the surface of the water, making it ...

Shinnecock Kelp Farmers, the first Indigenous-owned and operated kelp farm on the East Coast, is expanding with the help of a $75,000 grant from The Nature Conservancy. A women-led nonprofit, the ...

A new economic modeling tool is helping Maine kelp farmers identify cost-saving strategies with remarkable precision. By analyzing farm design, weather, vessel types, and processing methods, it ...

Farming kelp is an expensive endeavor, in some scenarios costing about $2,618 per metric ton. But a new tool developed in Maine could help trim that cost to $383. Researchers at Kelson Marine Co. in ...

Once water gets in your waders this time of year, you're on the clock at Shinnecock Kelp Farm. You have 15 minutes left to comfortably wrap up what you're doing and get out of the chilly bay. That's ...

WITH SEA FARMING AND KELP. CHRISTA ROSEN AND INGA POTTER HEAD OUT FROM KITTERY POINT, MAINE, ANTICIPATING A HEALTHY HAUL. A LEISURELY TEN MINUTES FROM THE HARBOR, YELLOW BUOYS MARK THEIR GROW LINES.

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On a gray morning in late April, Suzie Flores, 40, the owner of Stonington Kelp Co., hustled out of her hybrid Highlander in a Westport parking lot. She grabbed a couple of coolers of freshly ...