Seaweed has turned into pure gold in Asia, transformed by the Midas touch of eclectic Japanese taste buds. Assorted seaweeds, known asnori over there, are an essential part of every Rising Sunner’s known-healthy diet. The algal stuff now realizes top yen due to its repopulating popularity – and an inability of Japan’s seaweed industry, including reapers of both wild and aquaculturally grown nori, to keep pace. There’s money in watery weed, equivalent to billions of our dollars per year.

So, might that distant demand open dollar doors for us, seeing we have seaweed growing all over the place?