We will be launching products in the following markets in 2024:
Feed Additives
Seaweed-based additives are used in livestock nutrition to support the animal’s gut health & growth.
Raw Kelp
Sugar kelp and Oarweed available in bulk. Dried or frozen. Whole leaf of milled.
Nature Based Capital
Pioneering the development of both Blue Carbon credits and Marine Biodiversity Net Gain credits.
Farm Biostimulants
Biostimulants are applied to plants to enhance nutrition efficiency, abiotic stress tolerance and crop quality traits.
Raw Kelp
Species: Saccharina latissima (Sugar Kelp / Royal Kombu)
Product formats: Fresh, Frozen, dried, flakes / whole leaf / ensiled / fermented
Species: Laminaria Digitata (Oarweed / Tangle / Sea Girdle)
Product Formats: Fresh, Frozen, dried, flakes / whole leaf / ensiled
Feed Additives
Available mid 2024
For livestock producers looking to sustainably increase yields while decreasing emissions and input costs, algapelago are developing seaweed-based feed supplements that:
Improve feed conversion rates
Improve the microbiome & animal health
Reduce methane emissions
Farm Biostimulants
Available mid 2024
For horti/agri-cultural producers looking to improve soil microbiology. Seaweed biostimulants contain a unique blend of micronutrients, bioactive compounds and plant hormones that promote a healthy soil biology.
A healthy soil microbiota has wide-ranging impacts, including: improved root formation and plant yield, improved resilience to abiotic stress and greater nutrient retention.
Horticulture
Culitvated Seaweed Extract formulated for indoor, outdoor and glasshouse use on flowers, soft fruits, vegetables, trees, shrubs, lawns and vines.
Agriculture
Bulk liquid biostimulants for large scale application as a foliar spray or root dressing.
Natural Capital Solutions
Ecosystem services are the benefits that seaweed cultivation and restoration projects have on biodiversity and ocean health.
Blue Carbon Credits
Kelp forests play a large role reducing the effects of global warming. Kelp has an incredibly fast growth rate (up to two feet per day) and exports a large portion of its biomass out into the deep sea, allowing kelp to permanently remove carbon dioxide from the atmosphere.
Rough estimates suggest that around 200 million tons of carbon dioxide are being sequestered by kelp every year – about as much as the annual emissions of the state of New York.
These estimations, however, rely on indirect calculations. To improve the numbers on how much carbon is being sequestered by kelp, we need to measure how much macroalgae ends up in the deep-sea. As kelp degrade, they expel bits of DNA into the environment. Algapelago are conducting Research with Plymouth Marine Laboratory to measure how much kelp gets buried each year by taking samples from the deep-sea and measuring the amount of macroalgal DNA. This is being contributed to a wider body of research to enable the creation of kelp carbon credits – a tradeable instrument which will support the development of these key ecosystem services.
Biodiversity Net Gain Credits
Biodiversity Net Gain (BNG) means protecting, restoring, or creating environmental features that are of greater ecological value to wildlife, habitats and people than any losses associated with the a development project (eg. Real estate). Net gain is not a new concept in UK planning policy. BNG is measured by comparing habitat losses and gains. Loss of habitat in one area be compensated for by creating habitat somewhere else.
The existing policy focus to date has been on biodiversity net gain in a terrestrial context which comes into legal force in November 2023 through the Environment Act. BNG credits are now being developed in the marine context and seaweed cultivation is promising as an excellent habitat to provide BNG.
