Seaweed Culture

Seaweed culture has perforce to be adopted should the supply of raw material to Industries be uninterrupted ,like in the case of the Japanese and Korean Porphyra industries, the Chinese Laminaria industry and the Philippines Eucfieuma Industry, which are now in the main based on cultured raw material. The culture is at present almost entirely confined to the Orient, reaching its peak of sophistication in Japan and China. The necessity of marine algal cultivation in India and the principles and problems involved therein are discussed by Thivy (1964), Krishnamurthy( 1967) and Chennubhotia (1976).