Seaweed Aquaculture Provides Diversified Products, Key Ecosystem Functions Part II. Recent Evolution Of Seaweed Industry

摘要

Used mostly for the extraction of phycocolloids, seaweeds remain a relatively untapped resource with a huge potential as edible food, feed ingredients, cosmetics, agrichem-icals, biomaterials and bioenergy molecules. Since they are also significant nutrient and carbon sinks for this planet, seaweeds should be the objects of trading credits for the ecosystem services they render. However, some biotechnological issues and societal constraints remain. A long-term interdisciplinary implementation strategy based on aquanomy principles needs to be developed.