Ray RaLonde receives Superior Outreach Program Award

October 2, 2012

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Ray RaLonde, Alaska Sea Grant Marine Advisory Program aquaculture specialist, received the Superior Outreach Program Award at the biennial National Sea Grant Week, held last month in Girdwood, Alaska. The award is presented by the Sea Grant Extension Assembly in recognition of outstanding leadership, teamwork and accomplishment by Sea Grant extension personnel.

The award recognizes RaLonde's career-long pursuit of safe subsistence and personal use harvest of shellfish in
Alaska, and his tireless devotion to diversifying through aquaculture the economies of isolated coastal communities in Southcentral and Southeast Alaska.

More information is available at www.alaskaseagrant.org.