Alaska's very own pet food brand?

The Alaska Seafood Marketing Institute is in line for a $500,000 federal grant for "development and marketing of an Alaska seafood pet food brand."

Learn more about this and other grants here.

Funding for a 'quota bank'

The Rasmuson Foundation has made the following grant to the Sitka-based Alaska Sustainable Fisheries Trust:

$475,000 to support a Gulf of Alaska quota bank that will provide access to fishing opportunities through leases to fishermen in rural and indigenous communities. The Alaska Sustainable Fisheries Trust will purchase quota shares of sablefish and halibut to lease to rural coastal residents, providing a lower risk way to take part in these fisheries.

A safer flight into Dutch Harbor?

The state is getting a $35 million federal grant to extend and rehab the runway at the Unalaska airport, the Alaska congressional delegation says.