Abstract
Chile, located in the southeastern Pacific, possess a high richness of seaweed species, some of which have been traditionally extracted from natural beds for the production of hydrocolloids (e.g. agar, carrageenan and alginates), but still a high proportion of the biomass is being exported as dried material to processors in Asia and Europe. During the period 2006–2016, this tendency has been maintained, but has also started to show signs of changing towards a more sustainable, localized seaweed industry as new actions by the Chilean government provided subsidies to seaweed farming activities and also to investments in local valorization of the resources. This “sea change” has been further supported by an increase in the number of localized scientific and technical studies related to Chilean seaweed resources which has prepared the foundation required in order to move to more advanced stages of local seaweed farming and development of local processing.
About the authors
Carolina Camus holds a Master’s degree in Biological Sciences and a Ph.D. degree in Ecology from Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile. She currently works as Assistant Professor at Centro i~mar & CeBiB, Universidad de Los Lagos. Her scientific expertise focuses in the study of macroalgae, with a main interest in ecological and evolutionary aspects of adaptation to environmental heterogeneity in seaweeds. She has professional experience in project management in the field of renewable energies, focused on cultivation of macroalgae biomass generation and domestication of seaweed for aquaculture.
María del Carmen Hernández-González holds a Bachelor’s degree in Biological Sciences from the Universidad de la Laguna in Spain and presently has a position at the Universidad de Los Lagos in Chile. Her scientific expertise focuses on red and brown algal cultivation, and her main interest is in the development of laboratory culture and propagation techniques. Her work has been carried out with species like Macrocystis pyrifera, Gigartina skottsbergii, Callophyllis variegata and Laurencia pinnatifida.
Alejandro H. Buschmann presently is a Full Professor at the Universidad de Los Lagos, obtained his Marine Biology degree at Universidad de Concepción and his Ph.D. degree at Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile. He has authored more than 100 peer-reviewed papers in international journals and book chapters. His research interest considers seaweed ecology and cultivation, and aquaculture management strategies focusing on integrated multi-trophic aquaculture (IMTA) and other emergent aquaculture environment interaction topics (e.g. antibiotic resistance).
Acknowledgments
This work was supported by Centro Basal CONICYT FB-0001, FONDECYT no. 118647 (AHB) and FONDECYT INICIACION no. 11170699 (CC). We acknowledge the English review of Sandra Pereda. The authors thank the reviewers for their contribution to our work.
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