ILIULIUK CREEK

This year, Hinkle said the biggest tides have been happening late at night so the technicians are doing the bulk of that work late during high tide, as that’s when the salmon prefer to move upstream.

The Alaska Department of Fish and Game was unable to get funding to count fish and collect data this summer at Unalaska’s McLees Lake, where the community harvests a large majority of its subsistence sockeye salmon.

With grant money drying up, the state wants Unalaska to help fund the salmon weir at McLees Lake.Scientists have used the weir to monitor sockeye for the…