The greatest challenge for this industry is to obtain fresh algae for feeding the abalone, which has become one of the greatest limiting factors (Viana et al. 1993; Corazani and Illanes 1998; Camus 2005). Until now, the algal supply has been collected from natural kelps populations which are extracted in large volumes. This means that the collection area needs to be expanded as the algae supply is becoming exhausted near the abalone cultivation centers (Pizarro 2003), which already is the case in northern Chile (Bulboa, C. personal observation).