Randy Brown

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Fish Biologist
Northern Alaska Fish and Wildlife Field Office
Fish and Aquatic Conservation
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101 12th Avenue
Fairbanks, AK 99701
United States

(907) 456-0295
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About Randy Brown

Made in Alaska: Bering Cisco

Dandy Dollies of Far-North Alaska

Fish Fasts 20 Months for Chance at Love

From The Library

Trends in Length, Weight, and Age of Humpback Whitefish in the Tetlin National Wildlife Refuge, Upper Tanana River Drainage, over a 20-Year Time Period.pdf
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Trends in Length, Weight, and Age of Humpback Whitefish in the Tetlin National Wildlife Refuge, Upper Tanana River Drainage, over a 20-Year Time Period.pdf

Humpback Whitefish Coregonus pidschian is an important subsistence fishery resource for local communities within the upper Tanana River drainage. Community members have expressed concerns to Tetlin National Wildlife Refuge (NWR) staff on perceived declines in size and abundance of Humpback...

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Katie Skink

Selawik River Inconnu Age Structure Evaluation and Spawning Population Abundance, Selawik National Wildlife Refuge.pdf
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Selawik River Inconnu Age Structure Evaluation and Spawning Population Abundance, Selawik National Wildlife Refuge.pdf

In 2004 a large permafrost thaw slump began emitting substantial volumes of fine sediment into the Selawik River upstream from the Inconnu Stenodus leucichthys spawning area. Following this event, the once clear-flowing river ran turbid for about nine summers before the thaw slump stabilized and...

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In The News

a beaver dam in a wetland
Wildlife Wonders
Beavers Can Build, but Rivers Rule the Roost
Left to their own devices, rivers change constantly. Snaking side-to-side across floodplains over ages, they eat the land away and deposit it elsewhere. Both beavers and fish are all too familiar with their fickleness and power.
a man bringing in a fish in a net
Migratory Species
Dandy Dollies of Far-North Alaska
We sat down with fish biologist Randy Brown to talk about the Dolly Varden of Alaska's North Slope/Arctic National Wildlife Refuge.
man standing on a fish wheel platform in a large river
Wildlife Wonders
Made in Alaska: Bering Cisco
Worldwide, there are only three known spawning populations of Bering cisco. All occur in Alaska, making the Bering cisco Alaska’s only endemic fish.
person's hands holding a bright red fish with hearts
Migratory Species
Fish Fasts 20 Months for Chance at Love
Some will eat, some will spawn, many will die. So long as the perennial springs in Arctic Refuge keep flowing and the sea keeps giving and taking, this cycle will continue as it has for thousands of years.