Auskelp

Auskelp develops offshore cultivation of Ecklonia radiata, the golden kelp native to southern Australia, for buyers in food, nutraceutical, and agricultural markets. The venture integrates hatchery propagation, exposed-water farming, and food-grade processing to turn kelp biomass into high-value products.

Unlike wild kelp harvesting, which has driven steep declines in natural seaweed beds, Auskelp cultivates golden kelp in exposed open-ocean waters and pairs its Disaster Bay lease with planned hatchery and processing facilities at Edrom on Twofold Bay. That seedstock-to-product integration positions the company as a supplier of golden kelp material for uses ranging from human food to biostimulants in a sector where Australian commercial kelp farming remains largely untested.