(SitNews) Ketchikan, Alaska - A three-day Southeast Alaska Shellfish Farming Workshop will be offered in Ketchikan this week starting October 9th, with evening lectures in four other Southeast Alaska communities this month. The workshop will offer a comprehensive look at the growing shellfish industry.

Pacific oysters await shipment from Prince of Wales Island
Photo by Deborah Mercy

Ray RaLonde, aquaculture specialist for the Alaska Sea Grant Marine Advisory Program in the University of Alaska Fairbanks, will present the three-day beginning shellfish farming workshop at the University of Alaska Southeast Robertson Building in Ketchikan this week, Thursday - Saturday.

Ketchikan Marine Advisory Program agent Gary Freitag will teach oceanography, and Marine Advisory Program marketing specialist Quentin Fong will teach business planning and marketing during the workshop. Presentations will run from 8:00 am to 5:00 pm each day starting October 9th through October 11th.

Evening lectures on shellfish farming are being offered following the workshop in Ketchikan on Oct. 9th, and in the communities of Metlakatla on Oct. 13th, Petersburg on Oct. 14th, Juneau on Oct. 17th, and Yakutat on Oct. 18th.

Lectures on shellfish aquaculture development will describe the economic impacts of farming on local communities based on 23 years of research and experience in Alaska.

An optional biology credit for the workshop is available from UAS.

The workshop and community lectures are free, but registration for the three-day workshop is required.

Edited by Mary Kauffman, SitNews

On the Web:

To Register:
http://seagrant.uaf.edu/map/workshops/2014/shellfishfarming/ketchikan/

Source of News: 

University of Alaska Southeast (Oct. 6, 2014)
Alaska Sea Grant

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