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Seeing Kelp
Matt Haight, culinary and quality manager for Atlantic Sea Farms, discusses the delicate flavor and nutritional properties of kelp and the company’s mission to help Maine’s lobster farmers and the local waters against a changing climate.
Matt Haight joined Atlantic Sea Farms in February 2022. Photo courtesy of Atlantic Sea Farms
If you had asked me three years ago what I was going to do, I probably would not have guessed, ‘Go work with a kelp company,’” says Matt Haight.
But today, Haight is the culinary and quality manager for Biddeford, Maine–based Atlantic Sea Farms and an outspoken advocate for kelp’s nutritional and sustainable properties.
Kelp is a type of seaweed (essentially all kelp is seaweed, but not all seaweed is kelp, Haight explains). Much seaweed is grown in China, but companies like Atlantic Sea Farms see…
