SPC WF, SPC Women in Fisheries (1999) Seaweed earns money for tiny atoll nation. SPC Women in Fisheries (5). pp. 16-17. ISSN 1028-7752
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Chances are sometime in the last couple of weeks most people in the developed world chewed into carrageenan and there is a reasonable chance it came from Kiribati. It comes from a particular kind of seaweed that is being grown commercially in the Philippines, Indonesia and, increasingly, in Kiribati. “This is the great economic hope for this place, particularly Christmas Island,” says Michael Tinne, a management adviser to the Kiribati Government owned Atoll Seaweed Company Ltd. It has bailing plants on Betio in Tarawa and Christmas Island which exports the seaweed to a Danish company. It extracts the carrageenan from the seaweed for use as an emulsifier in around 60 percent of all processed foods, toothpaste and cosmetics. The seaweeds it comes from, Euchema cotonii and Euchema spinosum, do not occur naturally in Kiribati but are imported as clippings from the Philippines—they grow very well off ropes staked down knee high in lagoons.
| Item Type: | Articles |
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| Keywords: | Seaweeds, Economy, Value, Christmas Is., Kiribati, Atolls, Trade |
| Subjects: | Fisheries Trade |
| Depositing User: | Varsha V icsf |
| Date Deposited: | 14 Jun 2022 10:32 |
| Last Modified: | 14 Jun 2022 10:32 |
| URI: | http://icsfarchives.net/id/eprint/12164 |
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