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Food for Thought: New NPR Piece on Hunger and Cimate Change Highlights the Work of SeaShare

NPR's The Salt published a piece today on the impact of climate change in remote areas of Alaska. In it, the work of SeaShare was mentioned: 

"Efforts to get enough nutrition to these rural communities have turned into an ongoing task. On Aug. 10, the hunger nonprofit SeaShare will be shipping 14,000 pounds of frozen halibut from Kodiak, with the help of the Coast Guard, where it will then be distributed in Kotzebue and nearby villages.

"This is the fourth year we've gone to Kotzebue," says Jim Harmon, executive director of SeaShare. "Last year, Nome called and said communities on the coast couldn't get the walrus they needed, so the Coast Guard made a second stop in Nome to distribute fish in Diomede, Savoonga and Gambell."

Read more here: In Alaska's Remote Towns, Climate Change Is Already Leaving Many Hungry

Stay tuned in the next few weeks for updates on the delivery to Kotzebue, where almost a quarter of the population is food insecure. The 14,000 pounds of Alaska halibut SeaShare will deliver next month will go a long way in ensuring people in and around Kotzebue have access to healthy food.