Smashing records, sockeye salmon are booming up the Columbia River in a run expected to top 700,000 fish before it’s over. But a punishing heat wave has made river temperatures so hot many may never ...

RENTON -- Standing near the asphalt highways and superstores that clog downtown Renton, Homer Venishnick tries each fall to explain the life cycle of the sockeye salmon. His audience, likely more ...

On July 22, news broke that Bristol Bay was having its biggest sockeye salmon return since recordkeeping began in 1893. More than 63 million sockeye had returned to the bay’s different watersheds and ...

Fall is the time many see and fish for salmon in Whatcom County creeks as they return home to spawn, laying their eggs and dying. There are five species of salmon in the Pacific Northwest: chinook, ...

A new analysis of nearly 25,000 fish scales offers more evidence that the millions of pink salmon churned out by Alaska fish hatcheries could be harming wild sockeye salmon populations when they meet ...