Fish Illness

Needle fish with lesions observed.

First time seeing a sucker fish in the Lower Yukon River.

10-13-13 Skin illness on whitefish (Coregonus nelsonii)

Fishing this spring and caught a broad whitefish that had a growth.

9-24-14 Coho salmon with parasites - New Stuyahok, Alaska, USA

Fish had a brownish moldy growth all over its body.

6-12-14 Sick Cod - Tununak, Alaska, USA

8-12-13 Growth in coho salmon - Hydaburg, Alaska, USA

10-24-15 Arctic char with sores and parasites - Quinhagak, Alaska, USA

Chum Salmon (Oncorhynchus keta) Filled with Pus

2/27/15 Deformed blackfish - Tooksook Bay, Alaska, USA

Strange chum salmon (Oncorhynchus keta)

Arctic Char (Salvelinus alpinus) with Saprolegnia

Nice looking whitefish, but had a bulged out eyeball on one side of head.

6-20-12 Petroleum smell in chum salmon - Chevak, Alaska, USA

Deformed halibut (Hippoglossus stenoloepis)

Tapioca like growth identified as larval trematode parasites (digenean metacercariae).

Smelt caught on the Kugkaktlik River were found to have dark spots on the skin. Photo examination suggests that the cause is the same black fungus found in saffron cod in Norton Sound. Continued surveillance for this condition in fish is requested by LEO Network members.

Had pus on them.

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.

A parasitic copepod- similar to or possibly Salmincola.

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

Silver salmon, caught 10 miles up the Twin Hills River, had small white patches in flesh.

Smelt caught in Bethel with fungal infection previously found in the Norton Sound region.

Black Rockfish (Sebastes melonops) caught with X-Cell tumor.