Kelp restoration and farming requires a nursery to produce seed that is healthy, and sourced from the area being restored to limit genetic drift.
In my time at Ocean Wise, I led the fundraising process, initiation, and development of our first kelp nursery in the Pacific Sciences Enterprise Centre (PSEC) in West Vancouver.
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Supervisor
Organization
Ocean Wise
With funding from Vancity Bank and Telus, we constructed in nursery aimed to test various restoration techniques, such as green gravel – the seeding of kelp sporophytes onto small rocks that can then be easily dropped onto rocky substrate for restoration.
The nursery was used to provide spores for restoration projects in collaboration with Tsleil-Waututh Nation, the Howe Sound Marine Stewardship Initiative, and the Squamish Nation.
Andrew Lang Wong 