This article highlights Greenwave Aotearoa’s landmark achievement of completing the first commercial planting of Gigartina seaweed in the Coromandel. This milestone reinforces our commitment to establishing a seed-to-sale seaweed industry within Aotearoa, creating income and jobs for coastal communities.

Andrea Graves from the NZ Listener visited our Tauranga-based hatchery run by the University of Waikato to find out more about the hatchery process and how we’re turning a scientific lens on the whole process. The article, published in New Zealand listener 17 Jun 2023, reports on the growing trend of seaweed aquaculture to cleanse wastewater as it absorbs large quantities of nutrients such as nitrogen and phosphorus. Highlights the work of Aqua Curo, a company that launders wastewater through ponds of native freshwater algae but is suffering from temporary supply insecurity. Explains how desirable seaweed species Ecklonia radiata is being grown on mussel ropes in a polyculture-style pilot by Green Wave Aotearoa which follows experiments conducted overseas. Notes the current regulatory system has needed to be updated to include seaweed. It also touches on using native red seaweed Asparagopsis to reduce the amount of methane belched by cattle and sheep.

NZ Herald journalist, Alison Smith, joins the Greenwave Aotearoa team for the first large-scaling outplanting using seaweed plants grown in a custom-built nursery in Tauranga and planted in consented aquaculture space south of Coromandel Town and off Ponui Island.

Stuff reporter, Shanae Hope, covers Greenwave Aotearoa’s first large scale planting of hatchery grown seaweed in Coromandel waters. Speaking to Lucas Evans from Premium Seas, Dr Rebecca Lawton from University of Waikato and Dr Nigel Bradly from EnviroStrat, the article highlights the role of Greenwave Aotearoa in New Zealand’s emerging seaweed industry.

Seaweednews.au covers our first large-scale Greenwave Aotearoa outplanting of hatchery-reared Ecklonia radiata seedlings, and discusses how it marks an important milestone in our regenerative ocean farming work programme.

Mawae Morton, Greenwave Aotearoa Independent Chair and Ministry for Primary Industries Director of Investment Programmes, Steve Penno, discuss the announcement that MPI and Auckland Council are investing millions into Greenwave Aotearoa to support us to provide the proof-of-concept for farming New Zealand seaweed at a commercial scale.