Dead murres wash up on Haines’ beach

More than a dozen dead common murres washed up on the beach in front of Haines on Tuesday, part of an unsettling trend happening across the state. According to biologists, the seabirds are starving to death.Dead murres on the beach in Haines on Jan. 12, 2016. (Tim Ackerman)
Haines’ Tim Ackerman was out for one his usual walks on the beach on Tuesday when he noticed something a little unusual: dead seabirds.
“I counted about 14 of them between the cruise ship dock and the harbor,&rdqu