Alexandra Talty

2 weeks ago | theguardian.com | Alexandra Talty

In October 2024, a US company called Ebb Carbon announced the world’s largest marine carbon removal deal to date, signing a multimillion-dollar agreement with Microsoft to try to help fix a very real problem in the world’s seas: ocean acidification.

1 month ago | seattletimes.com | Alexandra Talty

At Argus Farm Stop on Liberty Street in Ann Arbor, Mich., dry goods like Shoreline Fruit’s dark-chocolate-covered cherries (grown on Lake Michigan) and Omena Organics canned navy beans (grown in Omena, Mich.) are tucked near egg and milk refrigerators. When big-box stores reported shortages during the pandemic in 2020, Argus Farm Stop was bustling. “We had abundance,” said Bill Brinkerhoff, who founded Argus with his wife, Kathy Sample, in 2014. At first it was “utter chaos,” Sample said.

2 months ago | thefishsite.com | Alexandra Talty

An accelerator and investment firm focused on the ocean, Katapult Ocean is one of the leaders in private investment into aquaculture, with 80 investments into the ocean space, including 10 to 15 in aquaculture specifically. Bellafiore, who focuses on the fund’s early-stage investments, explains their outlook. Katapult’s seaweed investments include some of the biggest names in seaweed, like Ocean Rainforest, Carbonwave and Algaeing. Which seaweed investments are exciting right now?

Mar 24, 2025 | thefishsite.com | Alexandra Talty

In January Atlantic Sea Farms, the largest farmed seaweed company in the United States, announced it had raised $3.8 million, from investors including True Wealth Ventures, Third Nature Investors and Builders Bridge. Warner - CEO for seven years, who has now been replaced by Mikel Durham - answered the following questions. How did you manage to raise so much for ASF at a time that industry experts are referring to as “the seaweed winter”?

Feb 17, 2025 | thefishsite.com | Alexandra Talty

Standing tall in her insulated camouflage waders, Sue Wicks motors for 20 minutes across steel-blue water in her Pickerel clamming boat. During the winter, this is Wicks’ weekly commute to check her kelp lines on Long Island’s Great South Bay. There’s likely to only be an inch of growth, but Wicks checks in on her crop at least every week until it is time to harvest in the spring.