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By Brookhaven Councilmember Jonathan Kornreich | Letters to the Editor | TBR News Media | March 6, 2025

Suffolk County has a unique opportunity to lead in sustainable aquaculture by adding seaweed farming to its existing lease program. Seaweed cultivation offers immense environmental and economic benefits, including improved water quality, carbon sequestration, and the development of innovative industries such as sustainable plastics, animal feed, and biodegradable materials.

By Alexandra Talty | February 17, 2025 | The Fish Site

Former WNBA basketball player Sue Wicks now grows kelp, as well as oysters, in Great South Bay, Long Island, using a novel technique for shallow water cultivation. Standing tall in her insulated camouflage waders, Sue Wicks motors for 20 minutes across steel-blue water in her Pickerel clamming boat.

By Joseph Ostapiuk | January 8, 2025 | Newsday

A new batch of sugar kelp is growing, suspended on hemp lines hanging a few feet below the surface of the water along Oyster Bay Harbor at Theodore Roosevelt Memorial Park.

By Deborah S. Morris | February 8, 2024 | Newsday

The Town of Huntington has joined forces with a local nonprofit and marine experts to farm sugar kelp in its harbors to help improve water quality and use the seaweed's byproduct as a fertilizer at town parks and beaches.

By Linda Leuzzi | May 2, 2024 | The Long Island Advance

Wendy Moore had a hand in helping Sue Wicks develop her kelp farm.

She is also doing it for others.

By Charity Robey | June 10, 2022 | The New York Times

The quest of a Long Island seaweed farmer to make kelp the next kale.

By Michael Ciaramella | May 10, 2023 | New York Sea Grant

Lazy Point Farms, a project of the Moore Family Charitable Foundation, is excited to announce the end of the third harvest season focused on supporting the fledgling sugar kelp industry in New York through direct grants and supporting operations.

By Alexandra Talty | July 31, 2024 | The Pulitzer Center

As seaweed farms develop on both coasts and begin to contribute to America’s blue economy, much depends on infrastructure.

By Clarke Canfield | January 8, 2024 | Global Seafood Alliance

Former professional basketball player launches New York’s first commercial kelp farm, adding a ‘great complementary crop to oysters’

Sue Wicks has been a commercial oyster farmer for seven years. Now she’s also a commercial seaweed farmer – the first and only in New York.

By Michael DeSantis | May 31, 2023 | Patch

Sugar kelp improves water quality by removing the harmful nitrogen that causes algae blooms and is a natural fertilizer. The town in fall 2022 launched a pilot program to grow sugar kelp, a seaweed native to Long Island that requires little to no effort to grow in bays and harbors.

By Christopher Walsh | July 20, 2021 | East Hampton Star

Fast-growing sugar kelp is a natural wonder, from the nutrition it offers to the CO2 it sequesters. What could be finer than local waterways teeming with oysters? The filter-feeding bivalves are not only a delicacy, an economic boon to aquaculturists and a gastronomic delight to the rest.

By Mallie Jane Kim | October 18, 2024 | TBR Newsmedia

The water chemistry in Port Jefferson Harbor rates as some of the best among bays in Long Island Sound, according to a new report by bistate environmental organization Save the Sound.

December 17, 2021 | Town of Hempstead NY

The cultivation of sugar kelp can be beneficial to the marine environment.  This species of macroalgae is very effective at absorbing excess nutrients that degrade water quality, a natural process often referred to as bioextraction.

By Brinley Hineman | December 26, 2021 | Newsday

A West Sayville oyster hatchery is hinging its hopes on kelp to clean up the Great South Bay and eyeing the plant as a way to boost revenue streams. 

The family behind Hart Lobsters is used to persevering in the face of challenge.