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Hooligan caught from the Chilkoot River in 2017. (File photo by Emily Files)
The arrival of the hooligan, at one time, meant the difference between survival and starvation at the end of a long hard winter in Southeast Alaska.
Traditionally hooligan, also known as eulachon, candlefish, or saak, provided not only food for the Chilkat and Chilkoot Tlingit people of the Upper Lynn Canal, but also medical, social, and spiritual well-being.  Their arrival is often forecasted by the presence of gulls, ducks, seals, sea lions, and orca.  
Reuben Cash is the Environmental Coordinator for the Skagway Traditional Council and is working on the Northern Southeast Alaska Eulachon Population Dynamics Monitoring program. The purpose of the program is to learn more about these anadromous fish, their ecology, population dynamics, and distribution. ....

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