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A group of women of the Shinnecock Nation manage the first Indigenous-owned kelp farm on the United States’ East Coast. The people of the Shinnecock Nation have lived on Shinnecock Bay, on the east end of Long Island, New York, since the end of the last Ice Age. But overdevelopment on unceded tribal land is leading to nitrogen pollution, which is killing marine life. The Shinnecock Kelp Farm is farming sugar kelp (Saccharina latissima) in hopes that it will absorb some of the water’s excess nitrogen. Tela Troge, one of the six women running the Shinnecock Kelp Farm, met with Mongabay to talk about the future of this effort. @shinnecockkelpfarmers Read the full story by clicking the link in our bio. #kelpfarm #eastcoast #Shinnecock #marinelife #pollution