No one in Togiak had ever seen a fish like this before. In the photo it looks like a cross between a tad pole and a piranha! With help from ADF&G it has been identified as the smooth lumpsucker fish, found at depths of up to 1000 meters.
Dead or dying eggs in a female coho salmon are a possible symptom of environmental stress felt by the fish. In Western Alaska, water levels have been low following a rapid spring snowmelt and low precipitation.
Fish in a local pond may have been washed to their new location during a recent severe rain event.
Thousands of dead sockeye salmon (Oncorhynchus nerka) found dead along the beach during a period of warm weather. Additional salmon have been observed in the Togiak River, raising concerns about possible challenges to subsistence harvest.
Thousands of smelts were found dead during low tide in the Togiak slough. Is there an environmental cause?
It is unusual for skates to wash up on the beach.
Drought, causing low waters in Goodnews River, no blackberries, and early cool weather.
A resident of the community was near the gravel pit when he came across a number of dead fish.
Silver salmon, caught 10 miles up the Twin Hills River, had small white patches in flesh.
Fish has bend in spine.
Lesions on this Dolly Varden or Arctic char are most likely furuncles caused by a common bacterial pathogen called Aeromonas salmonicida.
Unknown fish caught this summer in Togiak Bay.
4/4/15 Increase in pike - Quinhagak, Alaska, USA
10-24-15 Arctic char with sores and parasites - Quinhagak, Alaska, USA
Unknown fish species caught in set-net gear
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