Leech found on duck near Selawik.
Unusually high abundance of rusty tussock moth caterpillars in the Nome area.
"Our temperatures reached 83 degrees, and seem to be getting hotter! We think that maybe the warm water has something to do with the humpy die-off?"
Murres along Cape Thompson are migrating earlier, allowing coastal community residents to collect eggs a few weeks earlier than normal.
"Its face was down in the mud and it was laboring to breathe. Its body condition was wasted and we could see its ribs."
This walrus was found by a local fisherman and reported by LEO Network to the US Fish and Wildlife Walrus Hotline. The carcass is thought to be too old for necropsy or sample collection.
Tumor found in King Salmon (Oncorhynchus tshawytscha)
Widespread mortality events that include more than one fish species are indicators that something is wrong in the environment.
Because of the increased travel distance, only families with larger boats were able to participate in the hunt and bring back enough to make the trip cost effective. With a heavier load in the boat, one family ran out of gas trying to get home and had to be rescued.
An unusual growth was found in a snow goose (Anser caerulescens) while it was being butchered. The growth may be related to a previous injury or illness that the bird healed from.
Northern Pike (Esox Lucius) caught with "pug head" jaw deformity, usually associated with cold water temperatures during incubation.
Warm temperatures are rapidly melting snow and creating ice, which creates difficult conditions for dog mushers. Migratory birds are arriving early, and a mosquito emerged months early. Small owls dead around the Goldstream Valley that looked unusually thin.
Warm ocean temperatures are keeping ice thin, which become easily moved by the wind. This ice movement separates commercial and subsistence crabbers from their gear, and have led to the loss of both crabbing and mining gear.
Wales lost shorefast ice early in the season. Ice along the shore has been crushed and broken. This is a very unusual event for Wales as many of our hunters rely on great ice conditions for whale and other sea mammal catch for food.
The smelt, caught through the ice in late January, may have caused a person who ate some to get sick. Local, tribal and state officials worked together to collect and analyze the fish.
Late freeze on the Lower Kuskokwim produced ice conditions unsafe for travel in November.
Thousands of smelts were found dead during low tide in the Togiak slough. Is there an environmental cause?
Odd time of year for seals to be eating herring.
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