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Seaweed farmed by Port Lincoln tuna company to become fertiliser, chicken feed and food pigment

Australia's southern coast has 1,500 species of seaweed — the second highest number in the world after Japan — and one Port Lincoln fishing company is harvesting them to make organic products while helping the environment.

In an Australian first, native seaweed is being farmed for liquid fertiliser under a joint SA government and industry research program at Dinko Tuna Farmers finfish aquaculture site in Spencer Gulf.

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