The Dream of Seaweed Farming Becomes Reality in Long Island Sound

Authors

Margaret (Peg) A. Van_Patten Ms., University of ConnecticutFollow

Document Type

Article

Disciplines

Ecology and Evolutionary Biology | Marine Biology

Abstract

Charles Yarish and collaborators have established a seaweed farm in Western Long Island Sound, off Bridgeport Connecticut via a research grant from Connecticut Sea Grant. Two species, Gracilaria tikvahiae and the kelp Saccharina latissima, are being grown as crops.

Comments

Excerpted from Wrack Lines Vol. 11 No. 2, Fall/Winter 2011-12 issue.

Peg Van Patten, editory

Recommended Citation

Van_Patten, Margaret (Peg) A. Ms., "The Dream of Seaweed Farming Becomes Reality in Long Island Sound" (2011). Wrack Lines. 66.
https://digitalcommons.lib.uconn.edu/wracklines/66