MAINE PUBLIC • July 27, 2021
Coastal entrepreneurs continue to ramp up Maine's production of kelp, and a processor that's seeded the young sector's growth is responding by opening a 27,000 square foot plant in Biddeford. Atlantic Sea Farms CEO Briana Warner says that in the last two seasons, the 24 farmers who supply kelp to the company have increased their landings by 12,000%, to roughly 700,000 pounds of seaweed this year. Most of them are lobstermen who own their own boats, looking for off-season income.