Plenty of fish to eat, and to study

New eulachon population research in Southeast Alaska rivers may help biologists learn more about the habitats of the small but important fish.

Meredith Pochardt, executive director of the Takshanuk Watershed Council, said the organization is contracted by the Chilkoot Indian Association to complete field work with Taal Levi, a fisheries and wildlife professor at Oregon State University.

The group will continue population research in the Chilkat and Chilkoot rivers, and start new research in the…