Join us for the annual Haunted Aquarium! Activities include owl pellet dissections, spooky experiments, cookie decorating, face painting, and a haunted house. Tickets are $10 for those age 4yr and over (3yr and under come in free) at Old Harbor…
Late in September, SSSC Research Director Lauren Bell traveled south to learn and participate in the Haida Gwaii Abalone Summit: Gud ahl tl’ hlG̱anggulas Galgahl’yáan damaan an hl tla ḵinggaa (People working together to take care of abalone). Co-hosted by…
As people of the sea our lives are intrinsically connected with the ebb and flow of the tides and all that dwells within the oceans. Over generations and eons these relationships have grown in importance and hold tremendous weight within…
Are you an artist residing in Alaska? If so we are looking for your vision to help us accentuate our unique facility. The end of our hatchery raceways sits directly adjacent to our heavily trafficked sidewalk along Lincoln Street. We…
Join us for wonderful opportunities to learn more about art, water, and fish. We have engaging after school programs that are open for registration now and will be starting in the next few weeks. Programs range from elementary to middle…
Dive into Sitka Sound’s kelp forests with UC Santa Cruz researchers on Thursday, August 29th…
After 2 to 5 years out in the wild the pink and chum are pushing at our barrier nets ready to come home. We are prepping our hatchery to receive the incoming salmon and soon will be starting to spawn…
Sitka’s diversity of culture, environment, and industries sets it apart from much of the world, a fact that Sharon Bohn Gmelch and George Gmelch know all too well having traveled much of it themselves. Sharon and George first found their…
We were so thrilled to host Gale McCrary as an intern through the Sealaska Heritage Institute (SHI) Opening the Box STEAM program. Gale brought his enthusiasm for science and for the past…
Two hundred million years before the dinosaurs and before there were trees on Earth, there were sharks in the ocean. They were the first vertebrates to develop jaws. Sharks belong to the class Chondrichthyes, which includes…