Project Summary
Countries: Argentina, Chile, Peru
Delivery Partner: Newcastle University
Project Partners: UK: Marine Biological Association, Scottish Association for Marine Science; Latin America: IMARPE (Peru), IBIOMAR (Argentina), Catholic University of Chile (Chile)
Principal Investigator: Pip Moore: Professor of Marine Science at School of Natural and Environmental Sciences, Newcastle University
Contact: Pip Moore: Pip.Moore@newcastle.ac.uk
Challenge
Wild kelp harvesting is an important industry in Latin American countries, especially in Chile and Peru, with over 40% of global brown algal landings originating from these two countries and where over 13,000 people are directly employed by the industry. With previous work showing that poorly managed kelp harvesting alters the structure and formation of kelp forests, KELPER2 aims to explore the drivers that reduce the resilience of kelp forests and their blue carbon potential to different sustainable harvesting regimes.
