Researchers capture bear-salmon interactions on camera

Researchers with the Alaska Salmon Program have found a way to study bears when they come to fish in Happy Creek or any other salmon stream in Bristol Bay: with cameras activated by movement, and barbed wires to snag bear hair.
For the past several years, University of Washington’s Fisheries Research Institute researchers have been studying what happens upstream from a slightly different perspective as part of a multi-decade study of Bristol Bay salmon: the bears’.
The goal is to fi