# First seaweed harvest inside Dutch offshore wind farm 2026-08-15T17:27:15+00:00 | World & Diplomacy | Indian Opinion Desk Corroboration: 1 independent outlet A vessel has sailed through the Hollandse Kust Zuid wind farm, 18 km off the Dutch coast, to collect the world's first seaweed harvest grown between operating turbines. The farm, called North Sea Farm 1, occupies open water among 139 turbines on a five-hectare plot, with seaweed growing on floating nets anchored to the seabed. Run by North Sea Farmers with partners including Deltares and Plymouth Marine Laboratory, and funded by Amazon, the project aims to test whether seaweed can survive open-sea conditions and whether wind farms can host aquaculture without conflict. Researchers are monitoring growth via satellite and modelling carbon capture. If scalable, the farm could produce 1 million tonnes of fresh seaweed a year by 2040, with early samples already being processed into food ingredients, packaging and textiles. ## Coverage - timesofindia.indiatimes.com Tags: Amazon, Hollandse Kust Zuid, North Sea Farm 1 Canonical: https://indianopinion.org/first-seaweed-harvest-inside-dutch-offshore-wind-farm/ License: Summary and commentary (c) Indian Opinion, reusable with attribution. Facts belong to the linked sources. Cite: https://indianopinion.org/first-seaweed-harvest-inside-dutch-offshore-wind-farm/#story-in-brief Review state: restored archive article, accurate at time of publication, not offered to search indexes.