Sun’aq wins grant to study invasive species’ effect on subsistence resources

Signal crayfish are not native to Alaska. Discovered in the Buskin River in 2001, the population is now well established and breeding. (Lisa Hupp/USFWS)What kind of threat do invasive crayfish in Alaska pose to subsistence resources? That’s a question the Sun’aq Tribe won a grant to study. The award was announced Tuesday.
Tribal biologist Kelly Krueger said Sun’aq applied for a Tribal Wildlife grant through the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service about a year ago. Now, the group wil