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.

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.