It’s always been a handy soil enricher. “People have been dragging seaweed up off the beach as long as there has been people and beaches,” says George Seaver, vice president and general manager of ...

Jean-Paul Deveau, president of Acadian Seaplants, a Dartmouth, Nova Scotia, company that employs 50 rockweed harvesters and five full-time employees in Downeast Maine, is appealing a Washington County ...

PORTLAND, Maine (AP) — Maine’s seaweed business has grown like a weed in recent years, with proponents touting it as both a “superfood” and an economic generator for the rural state — but the industry ...

A harvester holds freshly cut rockweed from the Pennamaquan River in Pembroke in this July 31, 2008, file photo. Credit: John Clarke Russ / BDN The Maine Marine Patrol is bringing charges against four ...

After deliberating for a year and a half in Ross v. Acadian Seaplants, the Maine Supreme Judicial Court has unanimously held that rockweed, a type of seaweed that grows on rocks in the intertidal area ...

Somewhat drab and unassuming, the humble rockweed’s olive-green or yellowish-brown appearance belies its importance in the rocky intertidal zone. “It’s considered a foundation species,” UC Santa ...

A Superior Court judge has ruled against a Canadian rockweed harvesting company in a civil case, saying that harvesters need to obtain a landowner’s permission before they can remove the seaweed ...

Ulva sea lettuce has been found to absorb and contain rare earth. The need to create domestic critical mineral supplies is spurring U.S.-backed research in biomining seaweed, which can help provide ...

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