Fish of the Week!

Pacific Salmon: Adventuring North?


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This episode explores the ability of Pacific salmon to colonize Alaska rivers flowing north into the Arctic Ocean. Are they able to spawn successfully or are they just adventurous strays probing north? Our guests are Peter Westley and Randy Brown. Randy, a Fishery Biologist, operates out of our Northern Alaska Fish and Wildlife Conservation Office and Peter is the Wakefield Chair of Fisheries and Ocean Sciences at the University of Alaska Fairbanks.

If you're a big Randy Brown fan like we are, check out our S1:E37 episode on Alaska's Bering Cisco and S3:E11 episode on dwarf Dolly Varden char. You can read his interviews here:

  • https://www.fws.gov/story/dandy-dollies-far-north-alaska
  • https://www.fws.gov/story/made-alaska-bering-cisco

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