In an article about Maine’s burgeoning market of edible seaweed, Real Daily cited an NBC interview with Susan Brawley, professor at the School of Marine Sciences at the University of Maine, where she said, ‘More people are interested in sea vegetables, and a lot more Americans are a lot more savvy about eating nutritious foods.’ Still, Brawley noted that the U.S. is still decades behind the seaweed industries of Japan, China, and South Korea.