The Marine Institute (MI), through its Centre for Aquaculture and Seafood Development (CASD), hosted a seaweed forum (October 8, 2024) and technology transfer mission (Oct 2024, Dec 2024 and Feb 2025) to provide development support to NL's emerging seaweed industry and to promote it across Canada. The forum was held in collaboration with the Newfoundland Aquaculture Industry Assocation's (NAIA's) 2024 Cold Harvest conference and included seaweed companies, research organizations, industry associations and government representatives from Atlantic Canada and British Columbia, who presented on successes, challenges, opportunities and lessons learned. In addition to the forum, MI organized a knowledge transfer mission for MI representatives to visit seaweed operations in the USA, BC, NS and PEI to learn about growing methods, industry specific logistics and processing requirements, and identify research and development needs for NL.

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