Federal fisheries managers are violating the Endangered Species Act by allowing fishermen to catch Puget Sound chinook salmon supposedly protected under the law, fishing and conservation groups ...

Salmon fishermen fill Puget Sound off Point Defiance in Tacoma, Washington, on the opening day of fishing season on Thursday, June 1, 2023. Salmon fishing will be banned temporarily in southern Puget ...

ONE OF THE largest pink forecasts in history is set to return this summer and state fishery managers will bump up limits in response. Anglers in Washington can expect similar salmon fishing ...

Canada and the U.S. states of Alaska, Oregon and Washington would all reduce their catch of fragile salmon species under the terms of an updated international agreement that, if approved, will spell ...

ODD-YEAR PINK runs are bad news for even-year chinook and the king-loving southern resident orcas that feast upon them. That’s the finding of a new paper published in the Canadian Journal of Fisheries ...

Smiles light up the faces of (from left) John Kirby, Kyle Hoyt, and Sharon Harmon. These fall Chinook were taken just above the Warrior Rock deadline. (Photo courtesy of Sharon Harmon) Oregon and ...

Research biologist Jed Moore raises a sample of zooplankton from 400 feet of water. The Nisqually Department of Natural Resources has been monitoring the zooplankton salmon feed on for over a decade.