by Marc Laframboise MMNN Contributor
(Right) Peter Martin, a Gesgapegiag First Nation Fisherman, holding a Kelp Seedling Collection Device.
A small 2015 start-up managed by the Mi’gmaq Maliseet Aboriginal Fisheries Management Association (MMAFMA) has not only grown into a successful kelp aquaculture operation but a rapidly growing community-owned processing company called SALAWEG Inc. that is now selling high quality kelp products across the Gaspé region and the Province of Québec.
MMAFMA’s Executive Director Catherine Lambert Koizumi who has guided the project along since its inception, is proud of her organization’s achievement: “We started with an idea that we believed in and now we have a thriving kelp aquaculture operation that our organization continues ...
