Efforts began with a "Seaweed Working Group", a multi-disciplinary and multi-stakeholder approach to develop the island nation's seaweed industry, which was based on local knowledge of fishermen and other stakeholders in the seaweed production sites. The project also included a scientific scope of agricultural potential for different species. Capacity building workshops focus on seaweed farming techniques, followed by community mapping, to identify the most ideal sites to establish experimental seaweed farms.