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Two technicians handling kelp in an outdoor aquaculture tank
What a ranching / enhancement facility actually looks like — kelp culture tanks at UC Davis Bodega Marine Lab Photo: Jennifer Stock / NOAA →

Certified Restorative assessment

This organization is assessed separately for each role it holds. A harvester and a ranching facility are evaluated on different things, so they carry different scores.

Self-reported by this organization
Independently verified
How these tiers are defined
Restorative
Demonstrates net-positive contribution to kelp forest recovery, plus a solid baseline across locality, transparency, and labor criteria. Existing sustainable-seafood rating systems have no equivalent tier — they score harm avoidance, not restoration.
Sustainable
Low-harm and compliant, but not demonstrating documented net-positive restoration contribution.
Developing
Meaningful gaps in data or practice. This is a path, not a rejection — organizations here are working toward disclosure or practice changes.

Carbon impact is deliberately not scored numerically. Kelp carbon sequestration remains genuinely unsettled science, and a clean number would imply more rigor than currently exists.

Disclosures

Self-reported by this organization and not independently verified.

Active listings

Purple urchin listings declare roe status. Urchins taken from barrens typically carry little roe until fed, so “wild-direct” means quality is unconfirmed at point of sale.

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