Sablefish an unusual catch

Yukon subsistence fishermen face challenges with gear restrictions, closures, and reports of salmon potentially infected with ichthyophonus, impacting their summer fishing activities.

Deformed halibut (Hippoglossus stenoloepis)

Unusual fish catch

Mushy meat texture, and rotten smell found in sockeye salmon and pacific halibut.

The so-called 'warm blob' of water in the North Pacific has brought unusual plankton, which lack the nutrients wild salmon and other marine animals count on.

Photos and observations of the sheen thought to be caused by a fuel leak in the village of Shishmaref.

Biologists suspect climate change and mild winters may have prompted April's early out migration from Auke Creek.

Warm water threatens marine habitats off the coast of BC

4/4/15 Increase in pike - Quinhagak, Alaska, USA

Last year, 2014, was the hottest year ever recorded on Earth. Unlike other worldwide problems from which Canadians might feel relatively safe and isolated, but Canada is actually ground zero of global climate.

2/27/15 Deformed blackfish - Tooksook Bay, Alaska, USA

2/20/15 Needle fish die-off - Kongiganak, Alaska, USA

2/15/15 Lantern fish - Haines, Alaska, USA

Nice looking whitefish, but had a bulged out eyeball on one side of head.

12-31-15 Late coho salmon - Klawock, Alaska, USA

Fish had a brownish moldy growth all over its body.