Mariculture workshop in Juneau highlights growth potential for Alaska oyster farms

Mariculture workshop in Juneau highlights growth potential for Alaska oyster farms

Thousands of young Pacific oysters grow in bins within the floating upweller system, or FLUPSY. (Photo by Alix Soliman/KTOO) Listen to this story: https://media.ktoo.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/02/17Mariculture.wav At the end of a dock in Auke Bay, an oyster farmer lifted a creaky hatch door on an unassuming floating platform. Inside were bins holding thousands of young oysters, called spat. The platform is called a floating upweller system, or …