A New Heartbeat is Coming to Benton County
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A parasite that thrives in warm conditions adds to Yukon River salmon woes

Yereth Rosen
Posted 7/22/26

When Stan Zuray began noticing white spots, a mushy texture and a weird “sour watermelon” smell in the Chinook salmon he was pulling from the Yukon River, he knew something was going wrong. That was back in the 1980s. By about 1990, he and others just stopped fishing what he calls “the ass end of […]

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