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- Title
HARVEST OF THE SEA.
- Authors
Gardner, William
- Abstract
The article focuses on the growth of the seaweed industry in Scotland. Seaweed has become the basis for the manufacture of light weight woolen fabrics, textiles, transparent paper, plastics, ice cream, custard powder and soup, the fining of beer, surgical soluble ligaments, medical capsules and dental powders. The Scottish government has provided funds for the scientific development of the industry which should eventually give steady employment in the sparsely populated Western Isles and Orkney. Scottish Seaweed Research Association Ltd. was started in June 1944. It received $100,000 from the government's development fund, and a similar sum from the trades concerned with seaweed research on a dollar for dollar basis, ending in June 1946. There are now 18 firms interested in the development of the seaweed industry.
- Subjects
SCOTLAND; MARINE algae industry; MARINE algae; ALGAE; ISLANDS; MANUFACTURING industries; SCIENTIFIC development; SCIENCE associations; INDUSTRIES
- Publication
Science Education, 1951, Vol 35, Issue 1, p39
- ISSN
0036-8326
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1002/sce.3730350104