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For decades, Alaska Sea Grant has trained people to enter the commercial fishing workforce. Now the organization will also help people take the proper steps to get out. Clearing the…
Read MoreAlaska Sea Grant announces research awards
Alaska Sea Grant’s latest round of research projects stretch across the state of Alaska and the scale of life on earth. The five projects selected to receive Alaska Sea Grant…
Read MoreAlaska Sea Grant announces new research projects
Alaska Sea Grant is excited to announce six new research projects, with over $1.2 million in federal funding supporting Alaska researchers and graduate students over the next two years. The…
Read MoreNew funding expands harmful algal bloom research in Kodiak waters
The Kodiak region of Alaska has had a long-standing problem with paralytic shellfish poisoning, the dominant harmful algal bloom (HAB) concern in Alaska. A new five-year research partnership led by…
Read MoreNational Sea Grant awards funding for training new Alaska fishermen
Alaska Sea Grant and partners were recently awarded over $240,000 from NOAA Sea Grant for a project to train and support new commercial fishermen in Alaska. The two-year project AK…
Read MoreAlaska Sea Grant receives $450,000 donation from Northwest Farm Credit Services
Alaska Sea Grant at the University of Alaska Fairbanks received a $450,000 donation from Northwest Farm Credit Services (NWFCS) to fund several programs that support Alaska’s commercial seafood harvesters, pillars of the state’s economy.
Read MoreUrgent action needed in support of Alaska Sea Grant and the University of Alaska
We need you to contact your legislators now and tell them the University of Alaska and Alaska Sea Grant are worth fighting for! As someone who supports the work of…
Read MoreCordova urges support for Alaska Sea Grant Marine Advisory Program
Cordova’s mayor is expressing strong support for the continued presence of an Alaska Sea Grant Marine Advisory agent in the Prince William Sound fishing community. Mayor Clay Koplin, in a…
Read MoreUAF student completes salmon predation study
Very few juvenile salmon return to spawn. Many are consumed by larger fish who eat them as they migrate from rivers or hatcheries to the ocean. That’s a problem for…
Read MoreGood news from D.C. on Sea Grant funding
The 2018 federal budget was passed and signing into law in late March. The omnibus bill calls for $65 million in base funding for Sea Grant and $11.5 million in directed funding for aquaculture. That’s an increase of $4 million over last year’s appropriation to Sea Grant.
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