Togiak

No one in Togiak had ever seen a fish like this before. In the photo it looks like a cross between a tad pole and a piranha! With help from ADF&G it has been identified as the smooth lumpsucker fish, found at depths of up to 1000 meters.

Swallow populations are fluctuating as the environment changes. In 2016, the Alaska Songbird Institute began studying changes in swallow populations and formed the Alaska Swallow Monitoring Network. This is an opportunity for participation for community members to participate in a structured monitoring program.

"I discovered possibly 43 seabirds and may have missed more on August 3, 2019, just on the southwest side and did not go further on southeast side of our beach. Not sure, maybe they died of hunger."

Thousands of dead sockeye salmon (Oncorhynchus nerka) found dead along the beach during a period of warm weather. Additional salmon have been observed in the Togiak River, raising concerns about possible challenges to subsistence harvest.

Thousands of smelts were found dead during low tide in the Togiak slough. Is there an environmental cause?

It is unusual for skates to wash up on the beach.

The state's largest sac roe herring fishery got off to a windy beginning. Gusts over 30 mph posed a challenge for fishermen.

Muscle tapeworm cysts in caribou meat.

Warmer winter temperatures are bringing Arctic Ground Squirrels out of hibernation

Unidentified, deceased, sea animal washes ashore on Togiak beach

I never thought of seeing sick seal but what is that?

From an average freeze-up to rewarming and a lack of snow. The winter weather is now gone making the river ice unstable enough to go across to the community of Togiak for groceries household goods, bad situation.

Unknown fish caught this summer in Togiak Bay.

Squirrel parka tail plants early

Weekend storm eroded the face of the sea wall.

11-24-14 Winter spider - Togiak, Alaska, USA

11-20-14 Unusual jellyfish - Togiak, Alaska, USA

Crooked Island, 25 Miles south of Togiak. Remnants of blackberries.

7-14-14 Yellow flowers genus Arnica - Togiak, Alaska, USA

Unknown fish species caught in set-net gear