Southeast Conference (Alaska) was proud to be featured in the NADO Research Foundation’s Alaska’s Mariculture Industry: Creating New Opportunities for Prosperity and Resilience. Mariculture is a specialized branch of aquaculture involving the cultivation of marine organisms in the ocean for food and other products. Think farming, but in the ocean; mariculture operations cultivate and harvest regular batches of shellfish like oysters, mussels, abalone, or geoducks (pronounced “gooeyducks”), as well as seaweeds, like kelp.
Mariculture offers such promising economic and environmental benefits to coastal communities in Alaska that various organizations in the state have been working together with government offices towards the goal of growing this sector into a $100 million industry in 20 years. These efforts have also become one of the centerpieces of Southeast Alaska’s Comprehensive Economic Development Strategy (CEDS), bringing together a mix of partners to transform the regional economy and create new opportunities for residents, businesses, and communities. Click here to read the case study.
Southeast Conference is the federally-recognized Economic Development District in Southeast Alaska with a mission to support healthy communities, strong economies and a quality environment in southeast Alaska. For more information, please contact Southeast Conference Executive Director Robert Venables at robert@seconference.org.
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