Hatchery success with Gigartina

Our goal is audacious. We are setting up Aotearoa New Zealand seaweed farmers for a new industry that could be a game changer.

It’s a slow, tender process to hatch a new seaweed industry - though our cultivation of Gigartina (Sarcothalia) atropurpurea also needed a bit of ‘treating it mean to keep it keen’.

We’re happy to share that as a result of painstaking work by Greenwave Aotearoa, tiny babies of fertile Gigartina tetrasporophyte have now settled onto twine ready for the next groundbreaking milestone – to be the first commercial out planting of this species in New Zealand.