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Most of the world’s commercially valuable seaweeds are harvested from colder seas (Naylor 1976; Michanek 1975), which means that potentially valuable resources remain unexploited in most developing countries. Seaweed farming is highly suited to the tropics as productivity is higher in warmer than in colder latitudes (Edwards 1977). Many developing countries export raw seaweeds to developed countries and import processed phycocolloids. The establishment of seaweed farming and associated processing plants would help to improve the welfare of coastal fishermen who frequently lead a subsistence type of existence (Edwards 1979). It was suggested that a local seaweed industry should be established in Thailand nearly 50 years ago(Boonak 1935), but implementation has yet to take place.
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Edwards, P., Tam, D.M. (1984). The potential for Gracilaria farming in Thailand. In: Bird, C.J., Ragan, M.A. (eds) Eleventh International Seaweed Symposium. Developments in Hydrobiology, vol 22. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-6560-7_45
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