Seaweed Aquaculture 'Expands Ecosystems': First Quantitative Demonstration Across 6 National Sea Areas. 'GOOD SEA Future Report Vol. 2' Released.

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General Incorporated Association GOOD SEA, with support from The Nippon Foundation, has released 'GOOD SEA Future Report Vol. 2,' a quantitative study on the ecological impact of seaweed aquaculture conducted in six sea areas nationwide. This report quantitatively demonstrates for the first time that seaweed aquaculture plays a role in forming and expanding ecosystems by increasing biomass and species count, and establishing food chains within aquaculture beds. Diatoms showed up to 48x increase in biomass, epifauna up to 14x increase in species, and fish up to 9x increase in species. The survey period was from October 2024 to July 2025.