It’s sink or swim, eat or be eaten when smolts hit the ocean. The conditions there can play an outsized role in how many of them survive to adulthood and return to fresh water rivers to spawn. But the ...

Jan. 11—The students in Brooke Shamhart's fifth-grade class at Reese Elementary School crowded around the small aquarium at the back of the room Thursday morning in anticipation of watching a handful ...

“Oh man, you’ve just been eaten by catfish,” California Department of Fish and Wildlife interpreter Molly Shea told 6-year-old Sebastian Alvarez after he spun the salmon wheel of survival for a tenth ...

In Fulbright Park on a Wednesday afternoon, dozens of fifth graders released salmon fry into Ahtanum Creek. The release was the culmination of a detailed, months-long program to teach kids about the ...

Nature designed California’s Chinook salmon to be our forever fish. Why else would each spawning pair of adults produce about 5,000 fertilized eggs? If 99.96% of these eggs fail to produce adults that ...