Early breakup brings early arrivals.

Drought and high temperatures have dried the creek and caused thousands of pink salmon and Dolly Varden to die before they could spawn. The event raises questions about vulnerability of area salmon streams to climate change, and for local residents food security.

Majority of the red salmon went up the middle of the Klutina River and tended to weigh a pound or less.

Strange chum salmon (Oncorhynchus keta)

Amazing run of pink salmon.

Causing muted tidal influence

Sablefish an unusual catch

Yukon subsistence fishermen face challenges with gear restrictions, closures, and reports of salmon potentially infected with ichthyophonus, impacting their summer fishing activities.

Deformed halibut (Hippoglossus stenoloepis)

Unusual fish catch

Mushy meat texture, and rotten smell found in sockeye salmon and pacific halibut.

The so-called 'warm blob' of water in the North Pacific has brought unusual plankton, which lack the nutrients wild salmon and other marine animals count on.

Chum salmon die-off in the Kobuk River.

7-3-14 Kelp greenling - Golovin, Alaska, USA