S etting up a seaweed farm isn’t easy. Four miles off the north Devon coast in Bideford Bay, Algapelago, one of a spate of British seaweed startups, has just lost a sensor to the ocean. “Well, that’s quite irritating,” says Olly Hicks wryly. “That was our first month of data.” Mr Hicks, a co-founder of Algapelago, is captaining a small crew of research scientists and aquafarmers to a pilot site which could become Britain’s largest. The square-kilometre site may one day yield as much as 2,000 tonnes of seaweed per year. Right now, it’s much less.
在海藻农场里，这并不容易。距离英国海藻初创公司之一的阿尔加皮拉戈（Algapelago）北部德文郡海岸（North Devon Coast）的北德文郡海岸（North Devon Coast）刚刚失去了一个传感器。“好吧，这很令人讨厌，”奥利·希克斯（Olly Hicks）苦涩地说。“那是我们数据的第一个月。”阿尔加佩拉戈（Algapelago）的联合创始人希克斯（Hicks）先生正在一个可能成为英国最大的飞行员现场，将一小群研究科学家和水草舰队组成。平方公里的现场每年可能产生多达2,000吨海藻。现在，这还要少得多。
