12 articles
Filtration trains, source water choices, daily monitoring and contamination response — the water-quality management that decides whether a kelp hatchery succeeds.
Naomi Reyes ·
How to build and run a kelp strain catalogue: naming, provenance records, gametophyte lineage tracking, outcrossing rotation, and audit-ready hatchery documentation.
Dr. Elias Brandt ·
Kelp seedstock is not a commodity: provenance, local adaptation, permitting and biosecurity decide what you may and should plant. A geneticist's guide to native seed.
Dr. Elias Brandt ·
Kelp disease moves faster than most farm visits. How to build a farm-level surveillance protocol — baseline, triggers, sampling cadence — that catches trouble early.
Dr. Mara Ellison ·
The seaweed hatchery is the farm's biosecurity front line. Intake quarantine, screening methods, health certificates, and the seedling protocols that protect farms and reefs.
Naomi Reyes ·
How marine invasive species spread: ballast water, hull fouling, aquaculture escapes and plastic rafting — the vectors, and why some coasts are vulnerable.
Dr. Mara Ellison ·
How to spot and manage the main pests and diseases of farmed kelp — epiphytes, grazing snails, ice-ice, endophytic infections and more — with a practical response playbook.
Naomi Reyes ·
A practical biosecurity system for kelp farms: the pest vectors that matter, zoning and quarantine design, and what to do in the first 48 hours of an outbreak.
Naomi Reyes ·
A biosecurity plan is your farm's immune system on paper. Components, zoning, SOPs and records that keep pests, pathogens and invasive hitchhikers off your lines.
Naomi Reyes ·
Ports employ environmental managers, ecologists and biosecurity officers. What these harbour-side roles involve, what they demand, and how to get hired.
Tom Okafor ·
Exporting seaweed means two rulebooks at once — food safety and biosecurity. How market access, phytosanitary certificates and product certification really work.
Naomi Reyes ·
How kelp germplasm banks preserve gametophyte strains — provenance records, contamination control, viability testing and the rules for exchanging genetic material.
Dr. Elias Brandt ·