Prince of Wales Island – Alaska Sea Grant

Skiff school comes to Kasaan

By Tom Moran | September 1, 2026

A man holds a rope with a knot at the end of it. He looks at a teenager, who holds a rope with the same knot.

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…

Oyster farmers learn the trade at Prince of Wales workshop

By Alaska Sea Grant | November 18, 2025

Participants in a workshop stand on docks of an oyster farm listening to an instructor. They stand next to oyster sorting equipment and boats, surrounded by calm water and forested hills under a bright blue sky.

For three days in September, the future of Alaskan oyster farming got to learn some lessons from its present. The Alaska Sea Grant Oyster Farming Operations Workshop gave six farmers…

Blue Starr Oyster Co. debuts new oyster nursery system

By Lauren Cuddihy | July 25, 2019

An Alaska oyster farmer on Prince of Wales Island is hoping that a new device he spent years helping to design will increase his oyster farming productivity and prove useful…