1,500 seabirds have washed ashore today around Unalaska, Alaska

Fairbanks, Alaska

Reid Brewer of the Alaska Sea Grant Marine Advisory Program is on the scene in Unalaska, helping to collect, tag and recover carcasses of what are at this time more than 1,500 seabirds that have washed ashore in the last few hours around Unalaska.

The count is likely to increase. He is working closely with USFWS, the lead agency on the scene. The cause of the die-off has not been determined. A previous seabird die-off in 1997 was linked to a Coccolithophorid Bloom.
From SeaGrant.org Press Release