Food

The tribe has fished in the Pacific Northwest’s Klamath River for centuries, but the Chinook have been devastated by drought, disease, dams, and a long history of habitat destruction.

Micheal Warzewick, public education coordinator with the Office of the Alaska State Fire Marshal, said they’re discouraging the use of gas-fueled, hot oil turkey fryers.

Kodiak’s seaweed industry is growing, partly thanks to the investment of one company. Blue Evolution, which is based in the Lower 48 and turns kelp into pasta products, successfully completed harvest in May with a local fisherman in the City of Kodiak.

It was a generally good salmon season for Alaska, according to Andy Wink, a seafood economist with the consulting firm McDowell Group. Except for one species. “It was a disastrous year for chinook harvest.”

Inside a small room at Ketchikan’s Fawn Mountain Elementary School is a lush garden. It’s tended by students, who are growing lettuce, zucchini and … knowledge.

Concerns over animal welfare have led to changes in recent years in how livestock are raised. But seafood has been missing from the conversation. One group aims to change that.