Fish often congregate in schools. In Alaska’s coastal communities, so do potential fishermen. That’s why Alaska Sea Grant is increasing its emphasis on offering commercial fishing instruction to students in high school and even middle schools. This included recent training and outreach activities in Naknek, Metlakatla, and Hoonah, which gave students the opportunity to […]
Towns don’t get much more different than Newtok, Alaska, and Provincetown, Massachusetts. But the recently relocated Yup’ik village near the Bering Sea coast and the resort town on the tip of Cape Cod have one critical aspect in common: the relentless advance of erosion. That shared vulnerability was the inspiration behind “Lessons from Newtok,” […]
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 […]