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NOAA Fisheries Responding to Multiple Dead Ice Seals in Bering Sea Region

By Julie Speegle | NOAA on Jun 12, 2019 Featured, NOAA Fisheries and Alaska Fisheries Science Center, State

Photo: A hunter from Kotlik counted 18 dead seals along 11 miles of shore, north of Kotlik. Credit: Harold Okitkun/May 7, 2019. NOAA Fisheries is responding to several reports of unusually large numbers of dead ice seals along the coast of the Bering and Chukchi seas, in Alaska. At least 60 dead seals have […]

Coast Guard Suspends Search for Missing Boater in Peril Strait

By Alaska Native News on Apr 3, 2018 At Sea, General News, Southeast Alaska

Troopers received a notification from Delorme Inreach that a device had been activated in the Peril Strait area at 8:25 am on Sunday morning. The Coast Guard responded to the area and recovered the remains of Sitka man 49-year-old Sean Elliot in Goose Cove. An overturned boat was also recovered after it was found overturned […]