Biologists say belugas probably venture into fresh water more often than people realize. But locals were thrilled to catch a glimpse of the whales.
Sherol Mershon runs the Silver Fin Bed and Breakfast, on the shore of Lake Aleknagik. She’s hung fishing nets for 45 years and has seen her fair share of wildlife. So when her guests told her they saw whales in the lake, she had her doubts.“Oh my! There are beluga. I said, ‘You guys come down — come down and look.’ And sure enough, I bet we saw seven. And they were traveling, but traveling slow,” she said.
Belugas have been sighted in Lake Aleknagik before, but Mershon said this is the first time she’s ever seen a beluga there. “Belugas have no problem at all going up rivers into fresh water and can stay in fresh water for long periods of time. They’ll follow fish up rivers,” she said.A beluga whale from the Beaufort Sea photographed in Puget Sound earlier in October, 2021. — a journey of about 60 miles.
“We’re here to do aerial surveys to count belugas in Bristol Bay, which we last did in 2016,” she said. “So we’re trying to do a count of the entire bay in order to see if we can tell if the population is declining, stable or increasing.”
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