Trouble for Yukon Salmon

Rick Loomis

Los Angeles Times

Lorene Moore, relaxes with a cigarette while filleting salmon caught by her husband on the Yukon River. A disease, known as 'ich' by locals, manifests itself in the heart, liver, spleen and flesh and makes the meat undesirable to eat. Fish caught with 'ich' are usually made into a gruel and fed to sled dogs or just thrown back into the river. Some scientists attribute the rise in its presence, sometimes as high as 30% of a day's catch, to global warming.

Rick Loomis, "Trouble for Yukon Salmon," in POYi Archive, Item #43062, http://archive.poy.org/items/show/43062 (accessed April 20, 2025).