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The latest news about Alaska mariculture.
Kodiak Tribe Receives $2.3 Million to Boost Kelp Processing
A $2.3 million grant from Alaska Mariculture Cluster (AMC), a coalition led by the Southeast Conference, will help ...
Forging the missing link in the Pacific Northwest’s seaweed supply chain
Working with one of North America’s largest seaweed processors on one side, and a range of Alaska’s fledgling ...
Mapping Alaska’s Wild Kelp Beds with Farmers
NOAA Fisheries and seaweed farmers team up to chart wild kelp beds, helping grow Alaska’s seaweed aquaculture industry.
Study at Juneau’s only oyster farm lays out challenges and opportunities for growing oysters in Southeast
In Bridget Cove, Meta Mesdag grows thousands of oysters arranged in rows of floating mesh bags. She owns Salty ...
Study at Juneau’s only oyster farm lays out challenges and opportunities for growing oysters in Southeast
In Bridget Cove, Meta Mesdag grows thousands of oysters arranged in rows of floating mesh bags. She owns Salty ...
Exploring the Upsides and Obstacles of Growing Pacific Oysters in Alaska’s Cold Waters
Scientists teamed up to examine how high-latitude conditions affect Pacific oyster health and quality in Southeast ...
Alaskan research outlines methods to deter Pacific herring from spawning on kelp farms
Kelp aquaculture operations are rapidly expanding in Alaska and coming into increasingly greater contact with wild ...
Kelp from millimeters to feet long, a look inside Kodiak’s sole operational kelp hatchery
Alaska’s kelp industry has been growing for at least a decade with the help of an increasing number of hatcheries ...
Strategies to deter Pacific Herring from aquatic farm infrastructure
This study drew upon herring physiology and ecology to identify potential nonlethal methods that aquatic farmers ...
Kachemak Bay otters’ behavior seems unaffected by oyster farms
The growing Kachemak Bay mariculture industry and a booming population of local sea otters appear to have a ...
In Alaska, Kelp Farming Offers Promise for People and Nature
As my plane banked over the vast Copper River Delta in Alaska—millions of acres of wetlands teeming with life—and ...
Established Buyers’ Guide Completes Kelp Market Resource Suite
This month, GreenWave released the final installment in our three-part market resource series: Purchasing ...
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melissa.good@alaska.edu
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