AMA BRASIL members participate in the formation of COOPERAQUA and together run the ALGAMAR project

Kappaphycus alvarezii seaweed farms will be implemented in a pilot project with Cooperaqua, AMA BRASIL and the participation of its members, and replicated through the ALGAMAR project in the four cities of the North Coast of São Paulo, with the expectation of licensing of all areas until the end of 2021.

In July 2019, Cooperaqua (Aquaculture Cooperative of the North Coast of São Paulo) founded its headquarters in São Sebastião, SP, to work with licensing and implementation of seaweed cultivation farms in the four cities of the region. Twenty members were responsible for the formation of the cooperative for the constitution where Renato do Prado Santos was elected president of the cooperative. With the participation of the members of AMA BRASIL, and its president Hermann Palmeira, also counting on the full support of the Coastal Agency and of its associate and director, Martinus Filet, and other important members of the organized society, with the lawyer Renan Poli, from São Paulo, Capital, responsible for and drafting the bylaws and conducting, monitoring, advising and legal advice, allowing the process to be quickly resolved, with the support of the São Sebastião City Hall, through the Fisheries and Aquaculture Directorate, led by director Simone Monteiro, and mainly with the direct encouragement of OISCA International, in the person of its director Oswaldo Takaki (in -memory).

The cultivation farm project evolved through the participation of all members of Cooperaqua and AMA BRASIL. Consequently, its model is used as a pilot to multiply the structure, having its first implantation near the coast, around three hundred meters, between the beach of Cigarras and the Pier da Figueira, in the neighbourhood of São Francisco. To understand the project in detail, accesses the content displayed on the AMA BRASIL Portal and keep your application up to date to receive information and news.