Alaska is home to many remote communities in coastal, arctic and subarctic environments. The difficulty of transporting food to many of these areas means that food insecurity is a huge issue.

Tiffany Stephens, left, works at the Seagrove Kelp farm in Doyle Bay near Craig on April 14, 2021. (Photo by Jordan A. Hollarsmith/NOAA Fisheries, Alaska Fisheries Science Center) To optimists, the ...

Employees check a line ribbon kelp, or Alaria marginata, in March at Seagrove Kelp’s Doyle Bay Farm, six miles outside of Craig, Alaska. State regulations require kelp farmers to gather seed from at ...

Because some kelp species grow mostly during the winter months, Alaska coastal residents involved in commercial fishing or summer tourism have started to supplement their income by farming them. “The ...

While the state has a bountiful coastline, it doesn't have easy access to kelp seed. But scientists are trying to incubate varieties that can be... In February of last year, Alaskan Gov. Bill Walker ...

The smell of the ocean and the boom of loud upbeat music filled the Barnacle Foods warehouse as employees donned hairnets and used large kitchen knives to slice away at the thick and tubular bull kelp ...

When food forecasters made their predictions for 2022, they told The New York Times that farmed kelp would move beyond dashi and the menus at high-end restaurants and into everyday foods like pasta ...

JUNEAU, Alaska, Oct. 11, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Alaska's frigid waters are known for producing the world's most prized seafood, and this Juneau company is adding a new chapter to Alaska's seafood story.

Just east of the Kenai Peninsula in south central Alaska sits Prince William Sound: an inlet full of tidewater glaciers spanning 3,800 miles of coastline and flanked by the jagged Chugach Mountains.

A battle is underway over the future of farming off our coasts as industry groups push to authorize large-scale aquaculture operations in state and federal waters. But not all aquaculture is created ...

Mar. 7—HOOD CANAL, Wash. — On a gray February afternoon, Joth Davis motors his skiff along the northern edge of Hood Canal, a glacier-carved fjord in Puget Sound. A grid of black buoys marks the ...

Once water gets in your waders this time of year, you're on the clock at Shinnecock Kelp Farm. You have 15 minutes left to comfortably wrap up what you're doing and get out of the chilly bay. That's ...