Technicians Kyle King, left, and Lara Breitkreutz trap a salmon at Lower Granite Dam for trucking past warm water to safety. (Richard Read / Los Angeles Times) The fish shimmied past her underwater ...

Every year, millions of sockeye salmon return to Bristol Bay, headed for spawning grounds in area rivers. The Alaska Department of Fish and Game has counting projects on several rivers throughout the ...

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 ...

Alaska fishermen are grizzly bears–hibernating throughout the winter, only to arrive on the Bristol Bay watershed during the short summer sockeye season, relying on those salmon to build resilience ...

HOME VALLEY, Skamania County — In a quiet, green pool off the Lower Columbia River, upstream from the Bonneville Dam, dozens of sickly sockeye salmon spend their final days. They shouldn’t be here.

Research on three Bristol Bay area rivers could eventually provide managers with more information when they generate run forecasts each year. The Alaska Department of Fish and Game has counting ...

As of Monday, 16 sockeye salmon had made it back to Redfish Lake in central Idaho. The iconic Pacific salmon species has started its return to Redfish Lake this season after a decade-low 17 sockeye ...

The first Snake River sockeye salmon raised in a $14 million hatchery that opened in 2013 returned to the Sawtooth Valley on Wednesday. A sockeye that was placed in Redfish Lake Creek in the spring of ...

LEWISTON – This summer, Idaho’s Stanley Basin could see the most robust return of sockeye salmon it has in several years. Sockeye numbers at Bonneville Dam on the Columbia River have surged in recent ...