The crowded waters of the North Sea will make room for a first-of-its kind seaweed farm, to be co-located with an offshore wind farm.
The dream of building the world’s first commercial scale seaweed farm within an offshore wind farm edged a little closer to reality last week, when the Irish firm Simply Blue Group stamped its seal of approval on the North Sea Farm 1 project. The rough-and-tumble environment of an offshore wind array is not the easiest place to establish a new aquaculture venture, but the crowded North Sea provides seaweed farmers with few other options.
“It has a keen interest in multiple use of wind farms and believes that efficient use of sea space is key to working with the oceans on climate change and bring more local communities and supply chains into the transition to a low carbon economy,” they add. Another new hurdle also arose on the supply side, when The Netherlands decided to prioritize offshore wind in the North Sea over other industries on the heels of the 2015 Paris Accord on climate change. That left little room for the seaweed industry to expand.
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