"zooplankton"

Arctic fish, seabirds, and marine mammals are struggling to adjust to global warming while consuming less fatty foods.

Like chinook salmon, NOAA researchers observed chum salmon almost exclusively near Alaska’s shores.

The Cook Inlet Aquaculture Association has been trying to move a majority of its net pens in the Tutka Bay Lagoon to the head of Tutka Bay for about four years. The hotly debated issue has led to packed community meetings and questions about the impact of raising fish in the area.

Biologists and marine researchers are investigating whether warm ocean water is contributing to whale and seabird mortality, marine mammal strandings, sea star wasting disease, paralytic shellfish poisoning and demoic acid.