2025 was another year of growth for Alaska’s mariculture industry, with more oysters and kelp harvested around the state. Those are some of the takeaways from a recent McKinley Research Group report.
On the kelp side, the report estimates 240,000 pounds of seaweed were harvested in Alaska last year. That’s 85,000 pounds more than in 2024. “We’re seeing seed spools that are coming out that look brown and healthy and full. So hopefully we got over a big hurdle with all of this effort and we’re going to be a little bit more successful in our seed quality,” Melissa Good said.