Roxy Reynolds’ Alaska Sea Grant Mariculture Summer Apprenticeship was a homecoming in the most literal sense. Reynolds apprenticed at the Moss Island Oyster Farm, a Kachemak Bay enterprise founded by her grandparents. Growing up in Anchorage, she had spent parts of her summers at the farm, helping with chores like sorting oysters and lacing nets. It fostered […]
To you and I, farmed oysters are a delicacy. But for sea otters, oyster farms may not be a big deal. That’s one finding of a team of scientists led by Brenda Konar, a marine researcher at the University of Alaska Fairbanks (UAF), and including Alaska Sea Grant-supported UAF graduate student Riley O’Neil. The researchers […]
For the people of Kasaan, small boats are a big deal. That’s why Alaska Sea Grant recently conducted a maintenance, operation and safety workshop in the Prince of Wales Island community focused on the outboard-powered skiffs locals routinely use for subsistence. The event grew from discussions between Gabe Dunham, head of Alaska Sea Grant’s Marine […]
To most of us, trash talk is something reserved for the basketball court or football field. But in the Bering Sea coastal village of Goodnews Bay, it’s a key part of a program for kids to keep their community clean. Trash Talk sprang from an effort to clean up the 250-person village’s streets and beaches, […]