The Sitka Sound Science Center is an anchor landowner on the former Sheldon Jackson College campus. The building dating to 1929 housed different programs. In 1972. Sheldon Jackson College formed a two year program to train people in aquaculture, fisheries science and fisheries management. The students built a hatchery. Over the years the hatchery reared all five species of salmon and trained hundreds of students that went on to become leaders in natural resource management in Alaska. . In 2005, a small aquarium was opened .In 2010, the Science Center purchased the buildings and took over the hatchery and the aquarium.