ALFA Wins Seafood Industry Climate Awards Grant
The Alaska Longline Fishermen’s Association (ALFA) in Sitka, Alaska, has received a $40,000 grant for a pilot project that would convert the Alaska fishing fleet to hybrid diesel/electric in order to help lower the carbon footprint within the seafood industry.
The project, supported by the Energy Transitions Initiative Project Partnership, has ALFA working with the National Renewable Energy Laboratory and Kemp Energetics to transfer technologies proven through other forms of transportation to small scale commercial fishing boats.
The Seafood Industry Climate Award (SICA) from Acme Smoked Fish Foundation in Brooklyn, N.Y., will be used to purchase equipment for ALFA’s hybridization/decarbonization project, ALFA Executive Director Linda Behnken said.
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