The proposed work will support the mission of the kodiak area native association (kana) and alaska sea grant (ASG) to mitigate HAB toxin risks in communities of the kodiak archipelago, alaska via…

The proposed work will support the mission of the kodiak area native association (kana) and alaska sea grant (ASG) to mitigate HAB toxin risks in communities of the kodiak archipelago, alaska via HAB monitoring and forecasting. Subsistence harvesting of seafood is a major focus of food resources and cultural practices among the native villages in the archipelago, but food security is threatened by recurrent blooms of toxic alexandrium and pseudo-nitzschia cells. Similarly, these blooms are a major obstacle to the developing kodiak mariculture industry, and HAB cell and toxin monitoring data are needed to mitigate these threats. By building on an existing HAB monitoring framework built by kana and ASG, and applying HAB monitoring tools developed by nccos, this project will establish bloom and shellfish toxin monitoring along the kodiak road system, strengthen communication and HAB information sharing among the kodiak native communities, and provide data to support the kodiak m