Community Keeps Chinook Research on Yukon River Going During Pandemic
Since 2014 a collaboration between NOAA Fisheries and the Yukon Delta Fisheries Development Association has taken place at the mouth of Alaska’s largest river, one where abundant Chinook, chum, and coho salmon used to have large runs. Their research focuses on Chinook salmon — why those runs are declining and why the returning fish are getting smaller each year.
Chinook travel the distance in the Yukon, spawning in tributaries in Alaska and the Yukon Territory in Canada. Headwaters begin in the Big Salmon Range and meet the ocean at the Bering ...
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