Porto-Muiños

Seaweed from the Galician coast is the specialty of Porto-Muiños, a family company in Cerceda, A Coruña, since 1988.

About Porto-Muiños

Based in
Cerceda, A Coruña, Galicia, Spain
Founded
1988
Known for
hand-harvested Galician seaweed

Rosa Mirás and Antonio Muiños, both from the Galician coast, founded Porto-Muiños in 1988. It is still a family company, now with the second generation, Xandra and Antón, involved. The company describes the waters off Galicia as the richest in the world for marine plants.

The seaweed is harvested by hand, by divers working in authorized areas under a regulated, sustainable harvest.

The company works from Cerceda, in the province of A Coruña.

Porto-Muiños questions

What is seaweed, and what kinds are there?

Seaweeds are large algae, simple plant-like living things that grow in water, and they are grouped by color into red, brown and green. Brown seaweeds include kombu and wakame, red seaweeds include nori and dulse, and sea lettuce is a green one. Nori is the red seaweed dried into thin sheets used to wrap sushi. Porto-Muiños gathers seaweed from all three groups off the Galician coast.

Does Porto-Muiños farm seaweed or pick it wild?

Both. Divers gather wild seaweed by hand in authorized areas under a regulated harvest, and the company says it is the first and only one in Spain to cultivate seaweed in the sea. Seaweed farming needs no farmland, significant fresh water or pesticides, and Porto-Muiños says spores from its crops, the tiny cells seaweed spreads by, repopulate the nearby coast. Many of its products carry the European organic certification seal.

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