Swimmers have reported feeling nausea, itchy skin and irritated eyes after vising the popular lake.

Plans are underway for raising the weir: a reflection of widespread concern, says Ken Traynor

Thousands of herring washed up around Piltun Bay in northeastern Sakhalin..

Smart started finding dead fish in his trap near Dull Lake about two or three weeks ago. Now there are hundreds and hundreds of them.Some local officials suspect water pollution killed the fish, but state officials offered an alternative explanation. According to the Fish and Game representative a local fisherman forgot to check a blackfish trap and may have dumped the dead fish in Dull Lake.