The Alaska Department of Natural Resources has opened a public comment period on a proposal to create a 31-acre kelp farm in ...

The rich resources of Pacific kelp forests helped humans populate the Americas. Now depleted by as much as 95 percent, they ...

Jim Estes, a retired USGS scientist and the paper's co-author, spent his career researching sea otters and how their presence ...

Alaska currently only allows aquaculture for shellfish and kelp. Dunleavy said House Bill 111 would allow farmers to breed and develop finfish stocks. The bill would not allow salmon farming.

After sea star wasting disease wiped out more than 90 percent of the ocean's wild sunflower sea star population, divers brave the cold Alaskan waters to find traces of the remaining population.

Fishermen in Alaska, where sea otter numbers have grown ... to verify the availability of food for the otters, check on kelp status and other conditions. The work will also include studies such ...