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More than 300 degree recipients honored during Sunday’s commencement ceremony.

Forty people spread across the estuarine beach of northwest Tamgas Harbor on Monday to study the invasive european green crab that’s been moving into the large bight on the southern

4:59 But some scientists say they’re worried about what hatchery crab and other species could do to natural populations. Throughout Alaska’s waters, shellfish populations have been in decline for decades — decimated by overfishing in the 1980s and by changing ocean environments in the years since.  Bristol Bay’s world-renown sockeye salmon fishery was a bright spot in a dismal statewide salmon harvest last year. But its red king crab fishery is in steep decline. “There’s quite a l...

Alaska Sea Grant Lands Gift to Boost Commercial Seafood Harvesters Alaska Sea Grant Lands Gift to Boost Commercial Seafood Harvesters Photo by Deborah Mercy/Alaska Sea Grant Commercial fishing vessels head out to sea near Chignik Lagoon. Alaska Sea Grant at the University of Alaska Fairbanks has received a $450,000 donation from Northwest Farm Credit Services to fund several programs that support Alaska’s commercial seafood harvesters. The donation from Northwest Farm Credit Services, a coop...