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Seaweed blog
Insights and discussions on the latest trends and research in seaweed cultivation and utilization.


Ocean and Coastal Future Blue Finance Conference: Who Will Pay for the Ocean?
By Rhianna Rees Who should pay for a healthy ocean? It’s a strange question when you think about it. Right now, it appears that our...
Scotland Seaweed
Sep 224 min read
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Knowledge Exchange Seaweed on Tour: What We Learned in Alaska and Maine
By Rhianna Rees with input from Rob Grisenthwaite, Leigh Eisler, Iain Matheson, and Jemima Cooper In May of 2024, eight delegates from...
Scotland Seaweed
Jul 297 min read
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Reflections from the 25th International Seaweed Symposium (Victoria, 2025)
By Rhianna Rees, CEO of the Scottish Seaweed Industry Association (SSIA) Earlier this month, I had the opportunity to attend the 25th...
Scotland Seaweed
May 265 min read
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The Future of Seaweed Processing?
New Opportunities The Scottish seaweed sector is growing, yet processing remains one of the biggest challenges to scaling up production....
Scotland Seaweed
Jan 303 min read
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Seaweed for food: Culinary Cosmopolitanism or Rediscovery?
By Rhianna Rees The 2023 SSIA conference Lunch: sourdough flatbread, celeriac roulade, charred beetroot and seaweed zaatar; seaweed...
Scotland Seaweed
Oct 10, 20243 min read
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The SSIA Turns 10: A Decade of Growth and Challenges
By Rhianna Rees Established in Oban in 2014, the Scottish Seaweed Industry Association (SSIA) emerged from a coalition of organisations...
Scotland Seaweed
Aug 28, 20244 min read
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Seagriculture in the Faroes
By Rhianna Rees This year's Seagriculture EU conference was located in the Faroe Islands, a direct flight from Edinburgh and an unlikely...
Scotland Seaweed
Jun 28, 20244 min read
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Fucus on Flavour: How Seaweed Stole the Show at the Ballymaloe Food Festival
By Rhianna Rees Earlier this year I went to Cork for the first time for the much-anticipated 5th Seaweed4Health conference. The...
Scotland Seaweed
Jun 6, 20243 min read
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The Blue Economy in Scotland: Unveiling the Power of the Seaweed Sector
By Rhianna Rees The mesmerizing coastline of Scotland stretches for miles, exemplifying the azure waters of the North Sea and the...
Scotland Seaweed
Aug 15, 20233 min read
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