{"id":5324,"date":"2012-02-03T13:06:47","date_gmt":"2012-02-03T21:06:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mlmlblog.wordpress.com\/?p=5324"},"modified":"2021-03-18T14:47:36","modified_gmt":"2021-03-18T21:47:36","slug":"farming-underwater-in-chile-south-america","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mlml.sjsu.edu\/student-life\/2012\/02\/03\/farming-underwater-in-chile-south-america\/","title":{"rendered":"Farming Underwater in Chile, South America"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_5325\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-5325\" style=\"width: 450px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/mlml.sjsu.edu\/student-life\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/75\/2012\/02\/img_4319-copy.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-5325\" title=\"Kelp Crab\" src=\"https:\/\/mlml.sjsu.edu\/student-life\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/75\/2012\/02\/img_4319-copy.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"450\" height=\"351\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mlml.sjsu.edu\/student-life\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/75\/2012\/02\/img_4319-copy.jpg 640w, https:\/\/mlml.sjsu.edu\/student-life\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/75\/2012\/02\/img_4319-copy-300x234.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 450px) 100vw, 450px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-5325\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Moss Landing diver holds a kelp crab that is eating the Giant Kelp being grown on the farm.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The Moss Landing Global Kelp Systems class was fortunate enough to dive in a kelp farm designed to grow Giant Kelp, Macrocystis pyrifera on lines. \u00a0The kelp farm had large kelp crabs which\u00a0aggregated\u00a0because the kelp is their preferred food, similar to insects eating on our crop fields on land. \u00a0The cute baby kelp is shown below growing on lines, hopefully they will not be eaten and make it to adulthood. \u00a0It was an interesting experience seeing an underwater farm, its easier to farm in the water with kelp as the nitrogen fertilizer is naturally in the water!<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_5327\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-5327\" style=\"width: 426px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/mlml.sjsu.edu\/student-life\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/75\/2012\/02\/img_4345-copy.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-5327\" title=\"Baby Kelp\" src=\"https:\/\/mlml.sjsu.edu\/student-life\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/75\/2012\/02\/img_4345-copy.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"426\" height=\"640\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mlml.sjsu.edu\/student-life\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/75\/2012\/02\/img_4345-copy.jpg 426w, https:\/\/mlml.sjsu.edu\/student-life\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/75\/2012\/02\/img_4345-copy-200x300.jpg 200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 426px) 100vw, 426px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-5327\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Baby kelp, they are cute!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Moss Landing Global Kelp Systems class was fortunate enough to dive in a kelp farm designed to grow Giant Kelp, Macrocystis pyrifera on lines. \u00a0The kelp farm had large kelp crabs which\u00a0aggregated\u00a0because the kelp is their preferred food, similar to insects eating on our crop fields on land. \u00a0The cute baby kelp is shown [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":291,"featured_media":5325,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[92,158,262],"class_list":["post-5324","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-drop-inblog","tag-diving","tag-invertebrates","tag-seaweed"],"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"MLML Student 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