The Biden administration awarded a group of Alaska organizations $49 million for new projects to support the state’s mariculture industry, money that the winners say could grow jobs in the
GROW Ketchikan, a nonprofit organization working with the Greater Ketchikan Chamber of Commerce, held a virtual event on May 20 titled, “Prosperity Ketchikan,” featuring guest speaker Robert Venables, who is
A $500,000 investment to assist Southeast Conference to create a “blueprint” for a mariculture processing facility on Prince of Wales Island was announced Jan. 13 by U.S. Department of Agriculture
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Julie Decker, executive director of the Alaska Fisheries Development Foundation, sees opportunities in the shorelines and beaches of the Aleutian coast.
You have lots of water, so you have lots of space. Relatively little population which means relatively little conflict, Decker said. The people that do live here are used to working on the water. There s North America s largest processing port. These are some pretty significant assets.
Oyster and kelp farms have been springing up in Alaska s coastal communities, from Southeast Alaska to the Kenai Peninsula and Kodiak Island, but there s only been one permit so far in the Aleutians.