I’d also been considering the value of allowing several species of animals(and plants), endemic to other countries, to run(I’m aware the plants can’t run) free on a seastead. Imagine the monopoly you’d have over the zoos of the world when the day comes that one or more of the animals you have goes extinct everywhere except for your seastead.
Then there’s the value of wildlife in promoting eco-tourism.
King Shannon of the Constitutional Monarchy of Logos.
Halophytes are a neccesity for a sea stead colony i think. By the way you can extract some amount of sugar from kelp as far as i know, there is a japanese immigrant(they must ve been citizens by now) family who are doing it as a trade in Canada. They sell hi-quality kelp flakes too… Watched a documentry about algea some time ago, it was mentioned there…
There arent a huge amount of mangrove plants that produce edible fruit to my knowledge, but if two species could be cross-bred in such a way that the result retains the ability to live in saltwater and produce good fruit, then why not/ (Although of course, genetic modification would have to be heavily involved in that process, I very much doubt a new species could be created by chance in such a short time)