The Department of Health and Social Services reports a person experienced PSP symptoms after eating a clam harvested near Perryville on the Alaska Peninsula.
The timing coincides with other sea bird deaths reported in St. Paul Island, Pilot Point, and Ugashik.
Historically, pollock are not a commonly observed species in Bristol Bay, but sightings are becoming more common.
Fireweed blooming in mid-late September after other plants have gone to seed.
Billie Shraffenberger is a longtime resident of Port Heiden. This is the first time she has caught a fish like the one she found in her subsistence salmon net this summer.
As of Friday afternoon, the sockeye escapement in the Chignik salmon fishery was less than half of what it usually is this time of the year.
There is really only one thing to talk about in Chignik Bay these days: Where are the sockeye?
Two hundred walruses surprised residents on an Alaskan peninsula after arriving en masse on a beach.
Located on the Alaska Peninsula, 424 miles southwest of Anchorage, Port Heiden is a cluster of homes at the mouth of the Meshik River on the shores of Bristol Bay. It's a community on the frontline of climate change in Alaska, where temperatures are rising twice as fast as the global average.
Residents saw a few hundred walrus hauled out at the beginning of April. By the end of April, they reported seeing about a thousand. On a recent flight over the shoreline, an ADF&G biologist saw only 100.
Landslides threatened community water supply, transportation, and residential homes.
The herds are increasingly moving around in Bristol Bay, perhaps seeking new feeding grounds, a biologist said.
Walrus in Bristol Bay and Port Heiden are not uncommon in summer. The fact they are present in April is unusual and residents believe factors such as the lack of sea ice, lack of food and warming ocean temperatures may be the reason.
Without ice to provide protection from storm waves, Port Heiden has lost the old town road.
It's about the size of a dinner plate and has a rubbery texture, was told it’s a sea cucumber but I’m not sure.
Port Heiden’s road to its harbor and old village site is crumbling into the sea and the lake on the other side of it will likely breach soon. “The road is basically gone. [Erosion]’s cut right half into the road,” said Scott Anderson, the Native Village of Port Heiden’s Tribal Environmental Director.
Red coral observed near Port Heiden along the Bering Sea coast.
Within the last year, they have measured twenty to one hundred feet of erosion along different sections of their coast line.
Goldfish Lake near Port Heiden is on the verge of draining into the Bering Sea.
Sea otter population growth not seen in recent history and shellfish harvest have been dropping.
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