Seaweed Farming in Disaster Bay: Information session and research workshop

This event brings together a local business who is proposing a seaweed farm in Disaster Bay, and a UOW research team interested in understanding the way communities will respond to new and emerging offshore industries.

The event has two purposes:

1. For AusKelp the session will provide an opportunity to introduce the Eden community to their proposal to develop a seaweed farm at Disaster Bay. The aim to begin ongoing conversations with the community around the potential development of the farm that will require formal public consultation as well as social and environmental impact assessments in the future.
2. For UOW, the associated research workshop will use the Disaster Bay proposal as one of three case studies in their project which aims to explore community reactions and response to these future offshore industries that will require consideration in future planning and assessment processes.

The information session and the research workshop are being held in conjunction with each other, so that the UOW team can observe and record the experiences of both industry and the community and capture live sentiment to help inform the development of a region wide report.

The research is independent from industry. It is funded by the NSW Government and has not received any funding from AusKelp or any other industry group or company.

Further information on the research can be found here.

‌AGENDA‌

• 4:30pm   Arrival for 5pm start. Light refreshments will be served
• 5pm   PART 1: Introducing the Disaster Bay kelp farm proposal, Hosted by AusKelp
• 6pm   Short break
• 6:15pm   PART 2: Research workshop, Hosted by UOW
• 7pm   Close‌