Easy Harvest

the concept of easy harvest originated from the will to valorize an abundant portuguese resource, seaweed. easy harvest’s operations focus on providing, managing, and valorizing the seaweed sector and its ecosystem services. easy harvest’s main service focuses on three major pillars: monitorization, mitigation, and valorization of wild macroalgae blooms in the south coast of portugal, the algarve, where their impact is greater. in the algarve, the blooms can cover large extensions of the coastline, generating great volumes in a short period of time. although natural, these blooms are reaching unnatural dimensions and becoming more frequent. if not managed, they create nuisances to the local communities and eutrophication of the coastal area. these red and green tides and are mainly composed of either green or red macroalgae, ulva sp. and asparagopsis sp. our operations enable us to collect the seaweed on the water column before it gets stranded on the beach, therefore reducing eutroph