Long Island Aqua Farmers Look to Kelp, Seaweed for New Businesses
In the murky green shallows of Moriches Bay, Paul McCormick steps from his oyster skiff to walk in knee-deep water to a section of his aqua farm that holds promise for a new industry on Long Island: cultivated sugar kelp.
It's the end of April, just weeks before harvest, and the weight of the underwater line and the long, curled ribbons of green-brown kelp show it's a bumper crop. Indeed, the growth is so strong that the Stony Brook University marine team that helped plant it and...
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