WRWA Annual Meeting

Join us for the WRWA Annual Meeting on Sunday, March 9 at 11:30. You will hear updates on our water quality monitoring programs and education iniatives. We are also excited to announce a special presentation by Paul Dobbins, Vice President, Aquaculture at World Wildlife Fund.

Advancing Seaweed Farming for Climate and Societal Gains

WWF believes that seaweed is a neglected climate change opportunity.  Farming seaweed is the most resource efficient means of creating vegetative biomass, and seaweed provides important ecosystem benefits to the waters in which they are grown. Recent data suggests that seaweed farms facilitate carbon sequestration and improve biodiversity. All the world’s coasts can farm seaweed, yet 98% of the 36 million metric tons harvested from farms each year is generated by only six countries in the western pacific. In this talk we will explore how seaweed is farmed, and why the largest conservation organization in the world…