A pair of belugas swam up the Kuskokwim River to Bethel this spring, and now a group has been spotted at in Lake Aleknagik. Biologist Lori Quakenbush says the whales can stay in fresh water for long periods, and probably do more often than we realize.
Fishermen aren’t the only ones hunting salmon in Bristol Bay. Last week, people spotted mysterious shapes in the freshwater lake about 20 miles inland from Dillingham.
“There were two big white shadows in the water. Two big beluga there. One of the people here saw the baby kind of by the mama, they were gray,” she said. Lori Quakenbush, a marine mammal biologist with Fish and Game, happened to be staying at Mershon’s bed and breakfast. The whale sightings in Lake Aleknagik were serendipitous for Quakenbush, who is surveying Bristol Bay’s belugas this month.
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