Old Harbor is turning to its past to plot out its future. With support from Alaska Sea Grant, a group of researchers are partnering with the Alutiiq Tribe of Old Harbor to study how people in the 200-person Kodiak Island village have managed their fisheries throughout history. The research will be combined with educational […]
In a typical summer, Sitka fisherman Jacquie Foss and her family travel hundreds of miles around Southeast Alaska, averaging only eight miles an hour. While their profession affords them countless hours to admire Southeast’s rugged coasts, it also exposes them to something Foss finds concerning: an awful lot of litter. “Without healthy habitat, there […]
An Alaska Sea Grant partnership enabled a group of Alaska Natives to dip their proverbial toes into the mariculture industry. In February, Alaska Sea Grant collaborated with the Central Council of the Tlingit and Haida Indian Tribes of Alaska (Tlingit & Haida) to hold a one-day workshop in Juneau entitled “An Introduction to Mariculture […]
What do walrus monitoring, the Tracy Arm tsunami and salmon bycatch have in common? All of them are important topics for audiences in Alaska’s coastal communities. Which is why each has been the focus of a recent presentation at one of Alaska Sea Grant’s three public lecture series: Strait Science Series, the Petersburg Science […]