The Sitka Tribe of Alaska has set up an environmental research and testing lab in Sitka and plans to begin testing local shellfish for biotoxins this spring. There has reportedly been some concern ...

Sitka Tribe of Alaska fisheries biologist Jen Hamblen empties blue mussel meat into a blender in 2016. (Emily Russell/KCAW) For millennia, people in Southeast Alaska have relied on the sea for ...