Featured Video: Field Trip to Catalina Sea Ranch

Catalina Sea Ranch workers tend lines of mussels that are usually submerged 20 feet below, miles off the coast of San Pedro, California. The Ranch has also started farming kelp. Photo courtesy of Catalina Sea Ranch.

The U.S Department of Energy’s ARPA-E Program has awarded $22 million to support development of technologies that will accelerate the deployment of advanced ocean farming systems capable of delivering renewable biomass feedstock at a cost competitive with terrestrial biomass feedstock.

Catalina Sea Ranch has teamed with global seaweed/kelp leaders for commercializing a projected potential multi-billion-dollar industry offshore California. Watch a video about the project, below:

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