Anchor Ice in Steep Creek by Doug and Bob

In winter anchor ice can form in streams under certain conditions. This can be devastating to fish eggs and yolk sac young living in the gravel and to juvenile fish such as salmon and Dolly Varden living in the stream. This video could be used as an introduction to a...

Salmon Fry in Saltwater

In the M.Sc. thesis by Joyce Landingham 1982. Feeding ecology of pink and chum salmon fry in the nearshore habitat of Auke Bay, Alaska. M.Sc. thesis. University of Alaska, Juneau, AK. 132 p. She mentions that a single harpacticoid copepod (Harpacticus uniremis) was...

Crow Eating the Eye of a Salmon

The Northwestern Crow actually helps prepare salmon carcasses for insects by providing an area in which they can lay their eggs. Insects, such as blow flies, can now enter the eye socket. Eventually their larvae, called maggots, can begin the process of eating the...

Salmon Spawning Sequence (Pink Salmon)

This video shows the major steps that a female salmon goes through to deposite her eggs. For more information on salmon look at Salmon by Armstrong and Hermans from The Coastal Forests and Mountains Ecoregion of Southeastern Alaska and the Tongass National Forest...

Salmon in Alaska at Spawning Time

This video is meant to be used as an introduction to the salmon species that spawn in Alaska. All of the images and video clips are of salmon at spawning time. In the first part of this video four of the five species of salmon in Alaska appear. See if you can find...