Around 60 ice seals have been reported dead across northern and western Alaska this month. The cause of the strandings and deaths is not known.
NOAA is investigating what it’s calling “unusually large numbers” of seal deaths.
18 dead seals were found along the coast, and are like part of a larger mortality event that includes 60 seals total. The average number of dead ice seals normally found in a year is 18.
Porpoise spotted heading up the Pastolik River
Carcass largely decomposed and difficult to identify.
LEO Network
