Indigenous women harvest sugar kelp from Long Island waters

It's a special time of year off eastern Long Island, where the water is filled with sugar kelp ready for harvest by a group of indigenous women. CBS2's Carolyn Gusoff got a rare look at their process, which turns seaweed into a natural fertilizer while also cleaning our waterways.

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very cool

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You boil it with anchovies or fish or clams or whatever and it makes broth. Koreans call it dashida Japanese kombu original natural source for msg

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Seahags

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Koreans... hold my glasses...

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In Florida the seaweed has brain eating amoebas embedded in it

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Shhh!

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Nature is a beautiful but cruel mistress.

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seaweed cleans the waters that means one has to be mindful which seaweed is cleaning and which is for food. either way kelp farming is for a good cause but yes we have to be becareful

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Ah finally some good produce. Meanwhile people now these days with their vegan options end up doing more damage to the environment.

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Yikes

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Big deal