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Mass production of marine algae in outdoor cultures

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TWENTY-FIVE years ago the large scale culturing of unicellular algae was viewed with great enthusiasm as an alternative method for producing protein1. This hope diminished by the late 1960s when it seemed that the process was uneconomical because of a combination of technical problems, most notably the recovery of the algal product and its subsequent conversion to a human food and/or food supplement.

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  1. Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole, Massachusetts, 02543

    JOEL C. GOLDMAN & JOHN H. RYTHER

  2. Harbor Branch Foundation Laboratory, Ft Pierce, Florida, 33450

    LAVERGNE D. WILLIAMS

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GOLDMAN, J., RYTHER, J. & WILLIAMS, L. Mass production of marine algae in outdoor cultures. Nature 254, 594–595 (1975). https://doi.org/10.1038/254594a0

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