Farming Seagrasses and Seaweeds: Responsible Restoration & Revenue Generation

Bigelow Laboratory for Ocean Sciences, Interagency Working Group for Farming Seaweeds and Seagrasses, Editors:, Nichole N. Price, Caird Rexroad, Charlotte Quigley, Karen Stamieszkin, Richard Langton and Rachel Sipler

No 347311, USDA Miscellaneous from United States Department of Agriculture

Abstract: Excerpts from the report: In 2019, the United States Congress charged the Secretary of Agriculture, in coordination with the Administrator of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, to establish a working group to conduct a comprehensive evaluation of U.S. seaweeds and seagrass farming, describing its current state, its potential to drive economic growth through production of livestock feeds and other commercial applications, and improve ocean health through deacidification. USDA partnered with Bigelow Laboratory for Ocean Sciences (BLOS), a global research institution located in East Boothbay, Maine, for assistance in collecting public input, providing subject matter expertise, and drafting a report to fulfill the Congressional mandate. In accordance with the fiscal year (FY) 2019 U.S. congressional appropriations bill, section 770, this document reports on (1) how kelp and seagrasses could help deacidify the oceans; (2) how emerging ocean farming practices could use seaweeds and seagrasses to provide a feedstock for agriculture and other commercial and industrial seaweeds and seagrasses that study (A) ocean deacidification; (B) the production of a feedstock for agriculture; and (C) how to develop scalable commercial applications to support a blue economy.

Keywords: Climate Change; Crop Production/Industries; Environmental Economics and Policy; International Relations/Trade; Livestock Production/Industries; Research and Development/Tech Change/Emerging Technologies; Resource/Energy Economics and Policy; Sustainability (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 188
Date: 2024
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DOI: 10.22004/ag.econ.347311

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