Abundant slugs in Dillingham acting as a stressor to garden plants.

Scientists report the latest data from the Upper Gulf of Mexico, and the results aren’t good.

The colourful Portuguese man-of-war is more commonly seen in warmer waters. Their painful stings can be fatal to some.

Tube-Dwelling Worms on Seldovia Beach

Black slugs are impacting native plants in the Chugach Forest and may be spreading elsewhere.

Pyrosomes were first seen on the Oregon coast in 2014 and every year since. Recently they have been reported in Washington, BC and Alaska. These weird organisms that resemble large pink thimbles, could signal really big changes in the marine ecosystem.

The smallest California cuke I have found.

Drifting throngs of pyrosomes, jelly-like, glowing organisms native to tropical seas have invaded Pacific coastal waters from Southern California to the Gulf of Alaska this year, baffling researchers and frustrating fishing crews.

Squid are occasionally found in the area, but not very often.

Several dozen worms were observed during a Beluga hunt in Norton Bay.

Douglas Indian Association catalogs marine debris at the bottom of Gastineau Channel | Though it sounds like the subtitle to a Pirates of the Caribbean movie, ghost fishing is a real phenomenon. It's going on right now in Gastineau Channel.

Sea otter population growth not seen in recent history and shellfish harvest have been dropping.

Sea star wasting disease, a type of densovirus, reduced the count of sea stars in Kachemak Bay from 180 last spring to a measly five this year.

No one really knows why algae put so much effort into making poisons. Alexandrium makes saxitoxin, and causes PSP. Another algae called Pseudo-nitzschia produces domoic acid, the source of amnesiac shellfish poisoning.

A limpet not seen in the area before.

The novelty of seeing a jumbo squid in Unalaska is not wearing off: a second one washed ashore Monday night.