Jan 01, 2015 · 1. Introduction. Farming of seaweeds at sea is a relatively young and robust form of aquaculture. World production has been characterized by exponential growth during the last 50 years (Loureiro et al., 2015) and it tripled between 1997 and 2012, from 7 million tons to 24 million tons (Mt) ().As such, seaweeds may one day play a much bigger role in food supply (see
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