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Photo courtesy of Ketchikan Daily News, September 10-11, 2011.
MARICULTURE DIRECTOR HIRED.
Tom Henderson / Mariculture Director
Tom graduated from Haines High school and attended Sheldon Jackson College in Sitka, where he was the first graduate in the Ocean Ranching program, an aquaculture program providing training in hatchery production of salmon. In 1981 Tom graduated from Colorado State University with a BS in microbiology, with an emphasis on fish diseases. Starting in high school and continuing through his college years, summers were spent on either a fish boat (driftnet or troller), or working with Alaska Dept. of Fish and Game. Tom worked for Prince William Sound Aquaculture Corp. multiple times between 1977 until 1994 when he finished his salmon career at Esther Hatchery (WNH). In 1994 Tom left PWSAC and bought a small oyster farm south of Kake, and has remained there since. He has crewed in various fisheries over the years- including halibut longline and salmon seine, and owned and fished a dungeness crab permit.
While in Kake Tom has also been a part of the Kake City Council, and a member of the Board and Board President of Kake Non-profit Fisheries Corp., which runs a small local hatchery. Tom has also managed to work in a few adventures along the way, hiking the Chilcoot Trail at 14, and canoeing the Yukon River from Whitehorse to Dawson. He also has enjoyed a few international trips, especially to Chile, and always keeps an eye out for aquaculture projects around the world.
Tom Henderson / Mariculture Director
Tom graduated from Haines High school and attended Sheldon Jackson College in Sitka, where he was the first graduate in the Ocean Ranching program, an aquaculture program providing training in hatchery production of salmon. In 1981 Tom graduated from Colorado State University with a BS in microbiology, with an emphasis on fish diseases. Starting in high school and continuing through his college years, summers were spent on either a fish boat (driftnet or troller), or working with Alaska Dept. of Fish and Game. Tom worked for Prince William Sound Aquaculture Corp. multiple times between 1977 until 1994 when he finished his salmon career at Esther Hatchery (WNH). In 1994 Tom left PWSAC and bought a small oyster farm south of Kake, and has remained there since. He has crewed in various fisheries over the years- including halibut longline and salmon seine, and owned and fished a dungeness crab permit.
While in Kake Tom has also been a part of the Kake City Council, and a member of the Board and Board President of Kake Non-profit Fisheries Corp., which runs a small local hatchery. Tom has also managed to work in a few adventures along the way, hiking the Chilcoot Trail at 14, and canoeing the Yukon River from Whitehorse to Dawson. He also has enjoyed a few international trips, especially to Chile, and always keeps an eye out for aquaculture projects around the world.
Ketchikan Daily News
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Construction has begun and we will be adding progress report photos as they come in
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Photo courtesy of Hall Anderson and Ketchikan Daily News
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Lisa Murkowski preparing to break ground.
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