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Scientists have discovered the cuisine preferences of two resident killer whale populations, also known as orcas: the Alaska residents and the southern residents, which reside primarily in the Salish ...

But there's more to this unexpected mutualistic relationship than that. These species of spider and frog have been found in the same area, and even share the same burrows. The frogs use the ...

In much of coastal Alaska, salmon sizes have shrunk over the past decades. The change is most dramatic in Chinook, but it has ...

In a new study, researchers estimated the impact of human activities on more than 21,000 marine animal species worldwide, ...

In the heat of debate over salmon farming, Alaska banned all finfish farming, except for a very narrow window for goldfish ...

Earlier this year the National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS ... threatened or endangered under the Endangered Species Act (ESA). This confluence of acronyms caused the Commissioner of the Alaska ...

Those braided seal gut look delicious. Visitors to Kodiak often ask how Alutiiq people can hunt protected species like sea ...

On top of this, we are facing administrative challenges such as the National Marine Fisheries Service's decision to conduct ...

Scrubbers, most of which use seawater to rinse some pollutants out of the ship’s exhaust, may sound like a good thing because ...

Otter and mink are semi-aquatic mammals that resemble one another in quite a few ways. In fact, they are so similar that people often mistake them for one another when seen in the wild. We are going ...

NOAA’s Marine Fisheries Advisory Committee met this week at Kodiak Marketplace to talk about Gulf of Alaska and Bering Sea fisheries research conducted here in Kodiak, climate change impact on ...