Images

Multi-tribal ceremonial release of adult Chinook to the Spokane River during 2022 National American Fisheries Society Meeting. Here, fish biologist Ian Jezorek participates in ceremonial multi-tribal fish release in the Spokane River.

Juga sp. snails, the molluscan intermediate host for Nanophyetus salmincola, populate the bottom of a stream bed in a south Puget Sound watershed.

Oil Tanker in Prince William Sound.

Juvenile steelhead smolts become silvery and scales become loose as they transition into their seawater life history stages.

Different size and age classes of experimental Specific-Pathogen-Free Pacific herring reared at the Marrowstone Marine Field Station.

Pale gills of a herring with VEN (top) compared to those of an uninfected, healthy herring (bottom).

Looking down on the Marrowstone Marine Field Station.

Specific Pathogen-Free (SPF) Pacific herring reared in the wet laboratory at the Marrowstone Marine Field Station.

Underwater image of Pacific herring bait ball in Puget Sound. Herring aggregate in schools for protection.

Juvenile herring with classic signs of VHS including focal hemorrhaging around the eyes, mouth, and fin bases.

Researcher, works at the microscope, Marrowstone Marine Field Station, Nordland, WA.

Image of the Western Fisheries Research Center, Marrowstone Marine Field Station.  Looking east toward Puget Sound.