Seaweed is healthy, nutritious and very tasty. Worldwide, seaweed for human consumption is the largest aquaculture industry. But here in the UK we are only just waking up to seaweed's culinary potential. However, the seaweed industry in the UK is growing and now requires more seaweed than can be harvested from the wild. And so there is a need to start farming it. This project, Seaweed as a Sustainable Solution for Economic and Environmental Development (S3EED), will develop the technology to grow two species of delicious seaweed in the cool, clear waters that surround the UK.

Seaspice is a niche brand selling high value seaweed products. We lead on taste and innovationto exploit the nutritional and health benefits of seaweed, which are only just beginning to be understood. Our problem is a sustainable supply of high quality seaweed- so we want to work out how to recreate the essential conditions of the seashore to farm seaweed. This would be a majoir breakthrough for our business and has the potnetial to kick-start an imnportant and valuable industry for the UK