#12: SINTEF Ocean with Silje Forbord - Integrated multi-trophic aquaculture and circular bioeconomy, learning from Asia, upscaling seaweed cultivation and diversifying into different species.

This episode was created as part of Inside Seaweed's partnership with Seagriculture Conference. Silje Forbord is Research Manager at SINTEF Oceans. Silje has 15 years' seaweed cultivation experience from land-based hatchery and field work, including integrated multi-trophic aquaculture (IMTA). She holds a PhD in cultivation of sugar kelp with focus on nitrogen uptake kinetics, growth characteristics and chemical composition.*Check out the ⁠Inside Seaweed Newsletter⁠! Just one short email per month, no spam and you can cancel at anytime.Would you like to get a super short email from me every month, with three actionable insights for your seaweed business? I will search the seaweed industry for the most important lessons, the most useful conclusions and relevant actions, condensed into a half page that I will share with you, each month. It's easy to sign up and just as easy to cancel. If you'd like to give it a try, head over to ⁠insideseaweed.com*SINTEF Ocean is an independent research organisation basedin Norway, which over the past 15 years has conducted around 60 projects onvarious aspects of seaweed cultivation and utilization.*[08:30] Producing seaweed biomass that nobody wants to buy.[09:25] The equipment you can’t buy in store[10:20] How funding availability influences which research projects are pursued.[12:35] Upscaling and why the seaweed industry is not profitable, yet.[13:55] Need to pay more attention to finding the right location for seaweed farming.[17:25] Coastal farming Vs. Offshore farming.[20:50] Innovation needed to achieve upscaling.[25:10] Cost is holding back faster progress.[26:50] Market development has been overlooked.[28:40] Year-round supply and diversification into different species.[32:20] What can we learn from Asia? Is there enough collaboration?[36:40] Seagriculture Conference EU.[39:20] Integrated Multi-trophic Aquaculture.[46:40] Areas where more research is needed. [48:00] Final thoughts.Useful Links:Silje Forbord on LinkedInSINTEF Ocean: Website, LinkedInSeagriculture Conferece EU - June 21st and 22nd 2023 in Trondheim, Norway. (Follow on LinkedIn)*Inside Seaweed's host is Fed DeGobbi, get in touch on ⁠LinkedIn⁠, ⁠Twitter⁠, or directly via ⁠email⁠. Please send in your feedback: what do you want to hear more or less of? any suggestions? Would love to hear what you think!