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Seaweed farming

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Seaweed farming is the practice of cultivating and harvesting seaweed. [1]

26 relations: Agar, Algaculture, Aquaculture, Aquaculture of giant kelp, Bamboo, Bioremediation, Carrageenan, Classical Chinese, Edible seaweed, Estuary, Eucheuma, Gelidium, Gim (food), Indonesia, Korea, Laminaria, Mangrove, Nori, North Sulawesi, Nutrient pollution, Philippines, Porphyra, Seaweed, Seaweed cultivator, Tokyo Bay, Zostera.

Agar

Agar (pronounced, sometimes) or agar-agar is a jelly-like substance, obtained from algae.

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Algaculture

Algaculture is a form of aquaculture involving the farming of species of algae.

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Aquaculture

Aquaculture (less commonly spelled aquiculture), also known as aquafarming, is the farming of fish, crustaceans, molluscs, aquatic plants, algae, and other organisms.

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Aquaculture of giant kelp

Giant kelp, Macrocystis pyrifera, has been utilized for many years as a food source;Abbott 1996Gutierrez et al. 2006 it contains many compounds such as iodine, potassium, other minerals vitamins and carbohydrates and thus has also been used as a dietary supplement.

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Bamboo

The bamboos are evergreen perennial flowering plants in the subfamily Bambusoideae of the grass family Poaceae.

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Bioremediation

Bioremediation is a process used to treat contaminated media, including water, soil and subsurface material, by altering environmental conditions to stimulate growth of microorganisms and degrade the target pollutants.

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Carrageenan

Carrageenans or carrageenins (from Irish, "little rock") are a family of linear sulfated polysaccharides that are extracted from red edible seaweeds.

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Classical Chinese

Classical Chinese, also known as Literary Chinese, is the language of the classic literature from the end of the Spring and Autumn period through to the end of the Han Dynasty, a written form of Old Chinese.

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Edible seaweed

Edible seaweed, or sea vegetables, are algae that can be eaten and used in the preparation of food.

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Estuary

An estuary is a partially enclosed coastal body of brackish water with one or more rivers or streams flowing into it, and with a free connection to the open sea.

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Eucheuma

Eucheuma (or guso) is a seaweed algae that may be brown, red, or green in color.

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Gelidium

Gelidium is a genus of thalloid red algae comprising 124 species.Its members are known by a number of common names.

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Gim (food)

Gim, also romanized as kim, is the Korean name for edible seaweed species in the genera Pyropia and Porphyra, including P. tenera, P. yezoensis, P. suborbiculata, P. pseudolinearis, P. dentata, and P. seriata.

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Indonesia

Indonesia (or; Indonesian), officially the Republic of Indonesia (Republik Indonesia), is a transcontinental unitary sovereign state located mainly in Southeast Asia, with some territories in Oceania.

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Korea

Korea is a region in East Asia; since 1945 it has been divided into two distinctive sovereign states: North Korea and South Korea.

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Laminaria

Laminaria is a genus of 31 species of brown algae commonly called "kelp".

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Mangrove

A mangrove is a shrub or small tree that grows in coastal saline or brackish water.

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Nori

is the Japanese name for edible seaweed (a "sea vegetable") species of the red algae genus Pyropia, including P. yezoensis and P. tenera.

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North Sulawesi

North Sulawesi (Sulawesi Utara) is a province of Indonesia.

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Nutrient pollution

Nutrient pollution, a form of water pollution, refers to contamination by excessive inputs of nutrients.

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Philippines

The Philippines (Pilipinas or Filipinas), officially the Republic of the Philippines (Republika ng Pilipinas), is a unitary sovereign and archipelagic country in Southeast Asia.

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Porphyra

Porphyra is a coldwater seaweed that grows in cold, shallow seawater.

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Seaweed

Seaweed or macroalgae refers to several species of macroscopic, multicellular, marine algae.

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Seaweed cultivator

A seaweed cultivator is a device which grows seaweed, usually in weekly or bi-weekly cycles.

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Tokyo Bay

is a bay located in the southern Kantō region of Japan, and spans the coasts of Tokyo, Kanagawa Prefecture, and Chiba Prefecture.

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Zostera

Zostera is a small genus of widely distributed seagrasses, commonly called marine eelgrass or simply eelgrass.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seaweed_farming

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