Faroese seaweed is food and provides shelter

The bay in the little beautiful village Fámjin on the western side of Suðuroy lies protected behind shallow scerries. Inside the scerries is a shallow lagune, while westward is open ocean. In Fámjin the tidalwater and natural environment provides good growing conditions for seaweed. The unique natural environment in Fámjin has caught the attention of Agnes Mols Mortensen.
Agnes is a biologist, PhD, and has experience growing and using seaweed for food in the Faroe Islands. She and her brother Mortan Mols Mortensen have established the aquafarming company Tari, and their hatchery activities are located in Fámjin.
The company grows seaweed and develops products to sell to markets in the Faroe Islands as well as abroad. Tari has developed various food products, such as Ocean Spaghetti (known as sea thong) which can be used as vegetables, and Ocean Wings, which can be used for spicing and salt. Agnes and Morten are developing a new product, which has caught the interest of large fish farming companies in the Faroe Islands and internationally.
Salmon farming is an important industry in the Faroe Islands and one of the challenges that the industry struggles with is sea lice which are bad for the salmon. The little fish lumpsucker is commonly used in the salmon aquaculture as cleaner fish to eat lice off the salmon. However, with no shelter or resting places the lumpsucker thrives poorly in the salmon cages. Tari is developing a shelter made from seaweed, that the small lumpsuckers can use for hiding and resting. The seaweed shelters, named Akvanest, made from natural material, are a sustainable way to improve the living conditions of the sea lice eating Lumpsuckers which will improve the production of salmon for food consumption. The Akvanest is becoming a very interesting product that Tari can produce for the fish farm industry, both in the Faroe Islands as well as internationally.