Barracuda, grouper, tuna – and seaweed: Madagascar’s fishers forced to find new ways to survive. Seaweed has become a key cash crop as climate change and industrial trawling test the resilient culture of the semi-nomadic Vezo people.
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/dec/24/madagascar-coastline-vezo-people-fishing-climate-change-adaptation
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30+ years ago, I worked for a seaweed processing company. Back in the day, our roving seaweed expert visited this tribe in South-West Madagascar, looking for new sources of red seaweed that produces carrageenan.
He carefully explained to them that if they gathered it, the company would give them money for it.
“And what do we do with that?” They asked. End of negotiations.