Atlas9 min read
Bantry Bay: Kelp Forests of Ireland's Deep Southwestern Bite
A coastal atlas guide to Bantry Bay, West Cork — a drowned valley of kelp forest, shellfish farms and Ireland's great kelp-harvest battle.
Tom Okafor ·
#seaweed-harvest
7 articles
Atlas11 min read
The Channel Islands (UK): Kelp at the Warm Edge of the English Range
Jersey, Guernsey, Sark and Alderney: Europe's wildest tidal range, the ormer fishery, the ancient vraic harvest and Britain's southernmost — and warmest — kelp reefs.
Tom Okafor ·
Field Notes8 min read
The Harvest Window: Fourteen Days to Pay for a Forest
Fourteen days, one weather window and a quota the reef wrote first — field notes from the harvest fortnight that funds a season on the Humboldt coast.
Jack Callum ·
Field Notes9 min read
Field Notes: The First Harvest in Lofoten
Eighteen months after Lofoten's polar-night seeding, the sugar kelp belt met its first harvest. Field notes from the week the fleet got paid in kelp.
Jack Callum ·
Atlas11 min read
Taiwan's Northeast Coast: Kelp, Longdong and the Kuroshio Edge
Where the warm Kuroshio meets the southern limit of the kelp world — Sargassum forests, agar harvesters, the Longdong diving coast and Keelung's protected reefs.
Dr. Mara Ellison ·
Field Notes9 min read
Field Notes: The Harvest That Paid for August
A ranger-led golden kelp harvest on South Australia's Gulf St Vincent just funded an entire seeding season. Field notes from the week the flywheel turned.
Jack Callum ·
Atlas9 min read
Galicia's Rías: Where Kelp Meets the Harvest
Galicia's drowned river valleys mix upwelled Atlantic riches with a foraging culture older than Spain's seaweed industry. A guide to the rías and their kelp.
Sofia Andersson ·