Last week, GreenWave published a report that summarizes the kelp industry’s progress over the past ten years. The report, which focuses on the U.S. and Canada, describes how seed production, farm production, and market landscape has developed throughout the last decade. It discusses successes and challenges, identifies infrastructure innovation and financing achievements, details supply chain coordination and the formation of cooperatives. The GreenWave report includes a regional snapshot of Alaska’s kelp industry and provides a useful overview of the entire industry’s progress and development.

The Alaska Mariculture Cluster (AMC) works closely with GreenWave on six different projects, including a Kelp Agricultural Product Development project, a Kelp Seed Quality project, and multiple mariculture equipment awards. GreenWave is also involved in the Kelp Primary Processing Platform, a project led by the Sun’aq Tribe of Kodiak that is working to create a modular system capable of producing stabilized kelp products for agriculture, food, and beauty markets. GreenWave also supports Alaska’s mariculture industry by strengthening cooperative development efforts in Cordova and providing additional support for the hatchery sector through the design of its containerized nursery.

Explore the Airtable below to learn more about GreenWave’s AMC projects.

About the AMC Marketing Program

Funded through the AMC’s Market Development grant component, the Alaska Mariculture Alliance (AMA) and Southeast Conference (SEC) have launched a robust marketing program to increase awareness, demand, and long-term market opportunities for Alaska’s growing mariculture industry. The AMC Marketing Program is being advanced by Tastemaker Comms in partnership with Rising Tide Communications – two experienced firms with extensive backgrounds in seafood marketing, brand development, and campaign execution.

About the Alaska Mariculture Cluster

In September 2022, Southeast Conference was awarded a $49 million U.S. Economic Development Administration (EDA) grant to stimulate private investment and grow Alaska’s mariculture industry to $100 million in sales in 10 years.  The Alaska Mariculture Cluster grant involves a large coalition of state agencies, Tribes, non-profits, and others working together over a five year period ending May 2027.