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Herring Roe Each spring, herring return to the deep blue waters and inlets of British Columbia in tremendous numbers. During this time, they spawn along the coastal shores with female herring laying upwards of 20,000 eggs each. Male herring fertilize the eggs soon...

A basket of freshly foraged, early spring nettles. Nettles are one of the highlighted ingredients for this first blog of the recipe series. Photo courtesy of Elise Krohn. The Cross-Pacific Indigenous Aquaculture Collaborative Network (IACN) is thrilled to announce the...

The coastline hums with a flurry of sea otters weaving in and out of waves, darting around each other, and plucking away at prey. When looking across a lively seascape like this, dense in tangled rafts of otters and kelp forests alike, it is hard to picture them missing.

A Group of Indigenous Leaders and Practitioners from Across the Pacific Meet in Palau to Discuss the Future of their Coastal Communities.

Uncle Mac Shares a story with MaryAnn Wagner. Article Contributions by Melissa Poe and Emily Akamine. Kelson “Mac” Poepoe remembers the old days when He'eia loko i'a (fishpond) on Oʻahu was buried under a jungle of growth. “There was no view of the mountains from the...

Reflections written by Emily Akamine, Student Assistant at Washington Sea Grant for the Indigenous Aquaculture Collaborative. She writes on the importance of seaweed stewardship as cultural resilience in Hawaii.  My grandmother’s stiff hands move swiftly over the...

Photo courtesy of Marco Hatch, with Lummi students carrying a canoe Washington Sea Grant Science Communications Fellow, Grace Freeman, a biology graduate student at Western Washington University, recently sat down for an interview with Dr. Marco Hatch, a steering...

Seaweed is cultural. It’s food, medicine, spiritual and ceremonial.  Seaweed is environmental. It is habitat; it converts carbon and makes sand. We’ve been learning about seaweed and kelp knowledge, including harvesting and stewardship, as a component of Indigenous...

Ceremony, Relationships, Reciprocity and Respect: Learning Methodologies for Indigenous Research  Author: MaryAnn Wagner Already contributing to the greater Indigenous community as a faculty member of Northwest Indian College (NWIC), Aissa Yazzie is also active as a...

Standing in a circle on the beach, we set our intentions and offer accounts of our connections to the land and sea. Getting started for a day of clam garden restoration involves nurturing our relationships to each other as much as moving rocks, raking sea lettuce, and...