EURO/KILO
Price for seaweed TONS
Biomass from seaweed
DRIED SEAWEED
SEAWEED SALT
Food products Animal feed
BIOFUEL
Biofuel Ingredience &
medicine
Fertilizer Bio material
GOVERNMENT
NETWORKS &
ORGANIZATIONS MEDIA
INDUSTRY
RESEARCH
RESEARCH
GOVERNMENT NETWORKS &
ORGANIZATIONS
MEDIA
TODAY FUTURE
Product development
Expand market to Europe
Food Alginate Agriculture Bioenergy
Establish national guidelines for seaweed consumption
NEW MARKETS
FARMING OFFSHORE UPSCALE FARMING
OPTIMIZE EXPLOITATION OF SEAWEED
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Create awareness
Promoteseaweed products and benefits of
farming
Secure biodiversity
Local“filtration initiatives”
Predictable delivery and quality of raw
material
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Stronger networks
Promote a national effort to support the
seaweed industry
Political acceptability
Facilitation
-Create public awareness -Identify and create success stories
-Cooperation with media to raise awareness
-Establish a knowledge center for seaweed and renewable energy -Facilitate tecnology transfer between sectors
Government
Funding
-National financing plan -Spesific funding
-Fair competition for funding within ocean research
-Develop long-term market conditions
Government
Seaweed foundation
“Tareskogs- fondet”
Reaching Paris and Kyoto
agreement goals Include seaweed farming in
climate accounting
Evaluation
-Evaluate local environemtal impacts
-Integration of possible platforms;
Fish farming, offshore, windmill farms
Government
Create an economy for
byproducts
-Pretreatment
- Preservation methods; drying, freezing, freeze-dry, fermentation, -Optimized exploitation of seaweed -Conversion pathways
-Research CO2 emissions through LCA
Research
-Systematic quality control -Handle large amounts of harvested seaweed
Industry
PROCESSING
Filtration nutrient and
uptake
Nitrogen uptake
Lowering acidity in the
ocean
Offshore anchoring of
farms
Cross sectorial contact and collaboration
Large scale biorefineries management CO2
Carbon capture and storage
Deep sea sedimentation
Mechanization automationand
(electrical)
Shared system for monotoring ongoing projects
and learnings
Customize application forms
and system Updated
regulations, 01.06.19
Legislation
-Create incentives for combining existing industries
-Licencing for optimized area use -Establish legislative framework for the industry
-Establish concessions
Government
-Optimal harvesting times -Effects on marine ecosystem -Storage methods and
preservation
Research
-New techniques and logistics -Efficient transport
-Storage solutions to reduce costs
-Develop logistics for short window of harvesting
Industry
HARVESTING
-Seaweed breeding -Growth conditions
-Ecological effects of farming seaweed outside of natural growth area
Research
-Monotoring and
systematic mappic of biomass resources -IMTA extention
Industry
FARMING
Collaboration and knowledge
exchange
Fertilizer
-Biological and agricultural advantages Animal feed
-Nutritional content -Digestive ability -Heavy metals
-Methane reduction
Research
Economical sustainability
Research
-Bioplastics
-Pharmaceuticals -Medicine
-Electrical equipment -Food
- Nutritional content - Seaweed as salt replacement
- Heavy metals - Idonine levels
Research
VISON FOR 2050
By 2050, Norway can produce 20 million tonnes of seaweed and
kelp at an annual value of 40 billion NOK
From report: “Sjøkart mot 2050”, SINTEF Almås & Ratvik, 2017
Trawling
140 000 tons
Farming
145 tons
Foraging
INDUSTRY
Foraging
Trawling Farming
Sources:
The Submariner Roadmap, Interreg Baltic Sea Region Sjøkart mot 2050, Sintef Opportunities and risks of seaweed biofules in aviation, Bellona Dagbjørn Skipnes, Senior scientist, Nofima Jon Funderud, CEO, Seaweed Energy Solutions Stefan Erbs, Advisor, aquaculture, Bellona Anders Karlsson-Drangsholt, Senior adviser, aquaculture, Bellona Lucas Gates, Founder, Seas of Norway Asbjørn Stavland, secretariat, Norwegian seaweed farmers
Made by Frøya Thue and Frida van der Drift Breivik
Establish shared system for continuous evaluation of carbon footprint
Collaboration with media
Integration of existing facilities
offshore
Develop sustainable processing of
seaweed
Export of Norwegian competency &
equipment
Collective strength to push
for change
