graying of the fleet – Alaska Sea Grant

Graying of the Fleet research wins national award

By Paula Dobbyn | September 25, 2018

woman setting a fishing net off the shore of a beach in Egegik Alaska

Alaska Sea Grant-supported researchers won a national award at Sea Grant Week in Portland, Ore., this month for a study on how to boost access to Alaska commercial fisheries by young and rural residents. The Sea Grant Association, comprised of Sea Grant program directors from 33 coastal universities, presented its Research to Application award to…

New report offers potential solutions to reverse “graying of the fleet”

By Paula Dobbyn | December 4, 2017

A new report from a team of Alaska researchers tackles a two-pronged challenge for the 49th state—an aging fishing fleet and rural communities increasingly left out of a multibillion dollar annual harvest and a way of life that has sustained them for generations.