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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.