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Tsunami debris surveys underway but will cleanup funding arrive in time?

Today the Marine Conservation Alliance Foundation (MCAF) released the results of their tsunami debris monitoring program. Further monitoring efforts are underway but additional funding is necessary to conduct cleanup activities. Learn More >

AKCKRRAB program proves large-scale red king crab hatchery production is feasible in Alaska

According to the Alaska Sea Grant College Program, participation by the village of Old Harbor on Kodiak Island has been crucial to the Alaska King Crab Research, Rehabilitation and Biology (AKCRRAB) program’s success. Learn More >

Bering Sea Fisheries Research Foundation

The Alaska Bering Sea Crabbers believe in the long-term sustainable harvest of the crab resources we are dependent upon. The National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS) and Alaska Department of Fish and Game (ADF&G) are jointly responsible for managing the harvest levels of crab stocks in the Bering Sea. Learn More >

Let Us Eat Fish

This Lent, many ecologically conscious Americans might feel a twinge of guilt as they dig into the fish on their Friday dinner plates. They shouldn’t. Over the last decade the public has been bombarded by apocalyptic predictions about the future of fish stocks — in 2006, for instance, an article in the journal Science projected that all fish stocks could be gone by 2048. Learn More >

Effects of ocean acidification and warming on the larval development of the spider crab

The combined effects of predicted ocean acidification and global warming on the larvae of the cold-eurythermal spider crab Hyas araneus L. were investigated in 2 populations: Learn More >