A dead gray whale found near Wrangell, Alaska. Taken 6/17/2019. Credit: Ceona Koch NOAA Fisheries Alaska Region has received reports of three additional dead gray whales this week, bringing the number of gray whale mortalities in Alaska to ten. The confirmed gray whale reports all came from Southeast Alaska. On Monday, a fisherman reported […]
Marine mammal experts with NOAA Fisheries and the Alaska Marine Mammal Stranding Network are monitoring the position of a dead gray whale in Turnagain Arm near Anchorage, Alaska, hoping for an opportunity to conduct a necropsy (animal autopsy). The latest reported location of the carcass is a couple hundred yards offshore from the Placer and Twentymile rivers. At […]
Searchers in boats on Lake Clark have found items believed to have belonged to four people who were aboard an aircraft that had left Port Alsworth headed to Anchorage before disappearing on Wednesday. The items, found floating in the water, were discovered in various locations on the lake to the north and east of Port […]
The body of a 72-year-old Homer man and long-time commercial fisherman, Ken Jones, was discovered floating in the waters of Cook Inlet near the Anchor Point Bluffs early Monday morning. Jones had gone out kayaking in Kachemak Bay on Sunday afternoon, as he had done many times before. Jones would often kayak through the Beluga Slough […]