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Harvesting seaweed at low tide in the shallow passage between the Nusa Lembongan and Ceningan Islands near Bali, Indonesia. With the drop in tourism during the COVID pandemic, many people in Bali’s hospitality businesses have returned to traditional jobs like cultivating seaweed. Farmers tie seedlings of the Katona variety to thin ropes in the shallows and harvest them a month or so later. It’s then sun-dried on tarps near the shore before being shipped to a factory in Surabaya for further processing into food and cosmetics.

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Harvesting seaweed at low tide in the shallow passage between the Nusa Lembongan and Ceningan Islands near Bali, Indonesia. With the drop in tourism during the COVID pandemic, many people in Bali’s hospitality businesses have returned to traditional jobs like cultivating seaweed. Farmers tie seedlings of the Katona variety to thin ropes in the shallows and harvest them a month or so later. It’s then sun-dried on tarps near the shore before being shipped to a factory in Surabaya for further processing into food and cosmetics.

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