Radio tags for a multi-year coho salmon monitoring project are inserted into the stomach through the mouth, with an antenna that sticks out. (From Alaska Department of Fish and Game) Last month, the ...

Marin biologists say an early abundance of salmon returning to nesting grounds in local creeks is signaling that this year’s spawning season could be one for the record books. “We saw more chinook ...

Sep. 12—TRAVERSE CITY — Salmon jumped against the concrete walls of the James P. Price Trap and Transfer Facility as curious passersby saw it teeming with fish. Wednesday marked the first full day of ...

As soon as it rains, coho salmon likely will swim up a small creek to a spawning ground in the west Sonoma County hills that has been impassable to the species for decades. When they come to the ...

After years of planning, a project to restore habitat for endangered coho salmon in Lagunitas Creek is moving forward. Last week, the board governing the Marin Municipal Water District awarded a $1.9 ...

The annual fall count of migrating summer chum salmon came to a close Oct. 15, with another positive sign for the species.

An endangered species is making a “surprisingly strong” return to a Bay Area creek. The latest count of coho redds (or nests) is over 70 in Olema Creek, about 3 miles southeast of Point Reyes National ...

Spawning salmon have returned to Whatcom County creeks. Adult chum salmon are back in droves this fall, following the trend of returning in mid-November to lay their eggs before dying, decomposing and ...

Nearly perfect ocean conditions and a high survival rate of smolt that headed to the Pacific Ocean in 2008, have led to a record number of coho salmon returning to Willamette Valley rivers to spawn.

Sockeye populations in the Baker River system had declined to just 99 returning fish in the mid-1980s, bringing the species ...

HEALDSBURG, Calif. (KGO) -- The drought is doing double damage to the state's salmon population. The lack of water is not only hindering spawning, it's threatening the fish who actually made it up ...

As leaves lose their luster and fall to blanket the grounds of October and November, another form of life nears the end of its cycle: salmon. Using their strong sense of smell, Pacific salmon with ...