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Cultivated seaweeds do not compete with food crops for arable land or freshwater, so this marine-based crop could provide an alternative source for the sustainable production of food, fuel, and natural compounds, without the usage of fertilizers or pesticides. However, increasing the global production of seaweeds requires an understanding of the critical points that currently limit their production. Seaweed aquaculture is, above all, a production method which can be scaled to real high proportions, maintaining several advantages as for example the heavy metals absence or a high and stable nutritional and biochemical profile in the cultivated seaweeds. In this chapter, we focus on the road to the sustainable seaweed aquaculture, the issues of concern and potential solutions to a sustainable aquaculture that contributes to a healthy ecosystem and quality production.
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This work was financed by the Live Food Production Laboratory (LABPAV) and the Tropical Aquaculture Study Group (GEAQUI) of the Federal Institute of Education, Science and Technology of Ceará – IFCE, Campus Aracati, Ceará, Brazil. This work is financed by national funds through FCT - Foundation for Science and Technology, I.P., within the scope of the projects UIDB/04292/2020 – MARE - Marine and Environmental Sciences Centre and UIDP/50017/2020+UIDB/50017/2020 (by FCT/MTCES) granted to CESAM - Centre for Environmental and Marine Studies. João Cotas thanks to the European Regional Development Fund through the Interreg Atlantic Area Program, under the project NASPA (EAPA_451/2016). Sara García-Poza thanks to the project MENU - Marine Macroalgae: Alternative recipes for a daily nutritional diet (FA_05_2017_011) which co-financed this research, funded by the Blue Fund under Public Notice No. 5 - Blue Biotechnology. Ana M. M. Gonçalves acknowledges University of Coimbra for the contract IT057-18-7253.
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Araújo, G.S. et al. (2022). A Road to the Sustainable Seaweed Aquaculture. In: Ranga Rao, A., Ravishankar, G.A. (eds) Sustainable Global Resources Of Seaweeds Volume 1. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-91955-9_4
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