By Michael Cugley of Whakaata Māori
Whiore Enterprises and four other companies will be attending the world’s largest trade show in Norway this August, as a part of the Hatch Launchpad programme aimed at accelerating their growth in global aquaculture.
The Ngāi Tahu-based team hopes to see the repurposing of invasive seaweed species into usable produce and products.
Whiore Enterprises chief executive Alan Groves says his company is looking to extract useful elements from seaweed, both for food and nutraceuticals.
He says there is a valuable element in the pest seaweed Undaria known to be helpful for people with cancer. “It has anti-cancer properties so we’ll be looking at extracting that.”