The 23rd International Seaweed Symposium: seaweed from tradition to innovation!
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The 23rd International Seaweed Symposium: seaweed from tradition to innovation! Stefan Kraan 1 & Susan Løvstad Holdt 2 & Jeong Ha Kim 3 Revised and accepted: Published online: 26 August 2020 # Springer Nature B.V. 2020
The 23rd International Seaweed Symposium (ISS) was held in Jeju, Republic of Korea, on April 28 to May 3, 2019, at the International Convention Centre. The ISS is a triannual congress held under the auspices of the International Seaweed Association (ISA; www.ISASeaweed.org). Starting from humble beginnings in 1952 with the First International Seaweed Symposium in Edinburgh, Scotland, with Dr. F.N. Woodward as chairman (Indergaard 2017), we are now almost 7 decades further with the 23rd Symposium in Korea. In 1952, almost 200 people attended from 21 different countries, and 53 papers were submitted; we now have peaked at over 850 registrants from 41 different countries, 22 mini symposia, 349 oral presentations, and 259 poster presentations (Fig. 1). During the last decade, seaweeds in general have become very popular as they have such a wide and diverse application from raw material and aquaculture/IMTA to fertiliser and biostimulants, feed and animal health, food and human health to materials, fabric, pharma, biotechnology and carbon sequestration/ habitat restauration (Fig. 2). Coupling this to the Korea’s long history and tradition of seaweed aquaculture and food use and the 23rd ISS was guaranteed to become a success. We are also happy to report that the exhibition/trade show is a growing part of the ISS which became very apparent at the Korean congress demonstrating the wide variety of
* Stefan Kraan [email protected] Susan Løvstad Holdt [email protected] Jeong Ha Kim [email protected] 1
The Seaweed Company Blue Turtle, Mausrevagh Kilcoona, Headford Co., Galway H91 E09X, Ireland
2
National Food Institute, Danish Technology University, Copenhagen, Denmark
3
Department of Biological Sciences, Sungkyunkwan University, Suwon, Republic of Korea
seaweed use in everyday life. The link with the seaweed industry is of vital importance to the ISS concept and stimulates synergy and partnerships between academics and industry and provides vital important funding to be able to run these conferences. Besides presenting the latest results in innovative research and novel applications using seaweeds as raw material, the ISS is also an excellent platform for academics (scientists and technologists), seaweed industry, SMEs, government and NGO officials to meet, exchange ideas, network and create partnerships or just meet old friends. This theme of the 23rd ISS “Seaweed from Tradition to Innovation” refers to the long history of seaweed use in Korea, mainly cultivation and food use (Figs. 3 and 4), but this can be said for many maritime countries where documented seaweed used for feed and fertiliser application goes back many centuries. With over 600 abstracts submitted, the scientific program achieved the right balance between oral and poster presentations and provided all aspects of seaweed re
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