PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide an apparatus for onshore cultivation of marine algae, effective for minimizing power energy necessary for the culture of marine algae and capable of improving productivity of marine algae per unit area and reducing facility cost by improving the growth rate of marine algae and reducing the installation area, and to provide a method for onshore cultivation of marine algae.SOLUTION: Marine algae are efficiently produced at a low cost while saving energy consumption by using an onshore cultivation apparatus for marine algae provided with a culture water tank holding seawater for culture and having a curved wall face at least on the bottom part, and a cultivation seawater supplying apparatus for supplying fresh seawater to the culture water tank, and stirring the cultivation seawater by gyrating the seawater along the curved wall face of the culture water tank.COPYRIGHT: (C)2013,JPO&INPIT【課題】海藻類の養殖に必要な動力エネルギを最小化すると共に、海藻類の生長率向上と設備面積軽減により単位面積当たりの海藻類の生産性向上と設備費軽減を図ることができる海藻類の陸上養殖装置、および海藻類の陸上養殖方法を提供することを課題とする。【解決手段】養殖用海水を貯留し、少なくとも底部に湾曲壁面を有する養殖水槽と、養殖水槽内に新たな養殖用海水を供給する養殖用海水供給装置とを備える海藻類の陸上養殖装置を使用して、養殖水槽の湾曲壁面に沿うように養殖用海水を旋回させて攪拌することにより、低コストでありながら、省エネルギで効率よく海藻類を生産する。【選択図】図1
