Hi @teksen_golemen , there are a fair few seaweed farms in the UK, with the most easy to find being based in Scotland. Thanks to Marine Scotland publishing an easy to sort list of licenses here https://marine.gov.scot/marine-licence-applications. Searching the term "macroalg" (as some are listed as "macroalgae" and some "macroalgal") will bring them all up, then you can sort by date license granted to find companies most likely to have infrastructure in the water. Farms in the wider UK are harder to track down. The Marine Management Organisation governs licenses in England, but their database is a bit harder to sort through (https://www.gov.uk/check-marine-licence-register), necessitating advanced searches for project and group titles with terms like "seaweed" or "macroalgae". I am unsure if or where any information on farms in Wales and Northern Ireland are published. The database managed on Phycoeconomy is also a very good place to look for companies with farm sites https://phyconomy.net/database/. Your best bet might be to contact a research institute that own a site. Of which I can think of two off the top of my head, The Scottish Association for Marines Sciences and Queens University Belfast.
Hi @teksen_golemen , there are a fair few seaweed farms in the UK, with the most easy to find being based in Scotland. Thanks to Marine Scotland publishing an easy to sort list of licenses here https://marine.gov.scot/marine-licence-applications. Searching the term "macroalg" (as some are listed as "macroalgae" and some "macroalgal") will bring them all up, then you can sort by date license granted to find companies most likely to have infrastructure in the water.
Farms in the wider UK are harder to track down. The Marine Management Organisation governs licenses in England, but their database is a bit harder to sort through (https://www.gov.uk/check-marine-licence-register), necessitating advanced searches for project and group titles with terms like "seaweed" or "macroalgae". I am unsure if or where any information on farms in Wales and Northern Ireland are published.
The database managed on Phycoeconomy is also a very good place to look for companies with farm sites https://phyconomy.net/database/.
Your best bet might be to contact a research institute that own a site. Of which I can think of two off the top of my head, The Scottish Association for Marines Sciences and Queens University Belfast.
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@iskander_bond Thank you for your deep and clear explanation about where to find farmers.
@iskander_bond Thanks for sharing all of these resources!