Bull kelp. Photo by Melissa Good. Alaska Fisheries Development Foundation (AFDF) and partners, including Alaska Sea Grant, are excited to announce a new training program for people interested in starting a seaweed farm. The program will be held in Kodiak, Ketchikan and Sitka in February 2020. Applications are due by December 20, 2019. The training […]
Scientists have detected toxic algae in clams from the Bering Strait and Chukchi Sea regions of northern and western Alaska, according to a new bulletin. This set of clams was taken about 50 miles north of Cape Lisburne. Photo courtesy of NOAA Fisheries. It’s an indication that ocean warming is moving northward, allowing the growth […]
A 45-year-old Naukati man, in a plea agreement, pleaded guilty to two commercial fishing misdemeanors last Thursday in a two-year-old case of harvesting sea cucumbers in a closed area. Jonathan W. McGraw and two others, it was determined in the investigation that spanned four months, had illegally harvested sea cucumbers from closed waters that included […]
Arctic sea ice could disappear completely through September each summer if average global temperatures increase by as little as 2 degrees, according to a new study by the University of Cincinnati. The study by an international team of researchers was published in Nature Communications. “The target is the sensitivity of sea ice to temperature,” said Won […]