Hot off the press: Deep-ocean seaweed dumping for carbon sequestration: questionable, risky and not the best use of valuable biomass.

[kendall_barbery]

Yesterday, a team of leading scientists in seaweed science published a call for a moratorium on sinking seaweeds from expanded seaweed farms, wild beds, or large floating accumulations to deep-ocean ecosystems until its efficacy is established, and there are robust, evidence-based assessments of its environmental, economic and societal sustainability, and appropriate regulations and legal frameworks are developed.
Read the article here: Deep-ocean seaweed dumping for carbon sequestration: questionable, risky and not the best use of valuable biomass.
to @charles_yarish and @scott_lindell for contributing to this piece.

[craig_lewis]

@kendall_barbery Yes it good to have more Research and at the same time Growling the Seaweed industry, to the capacity that would be required for Carbon Dumping.
Yet why dump it when it can be used in better ways.