Every summer, many rivers across Alaska appear as if they have caught fire. The water turns a deep, almost impossible red as ...

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 ...

After recent years of record or near-record runs and harvests, Bristol Bay sockeye salmon numbers are expected to return to more average levels next year, according to state biologists. The 2024 ...

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 ...

Rising water temperatures in the Columbia River Basin are raising questions about whether fishery managers must take new steps to save the imperiled fish. A persistent heat wave gripping parts of ...

A can of salmon forgotten since the 1970s has turned out to be an unexpected window into the past. Researchers at the ...

If you liked this story, share it with other people. Every year, 22 million sockeye salmon begin life some 420 kilometers, or about 260 miles, inland from the Alaskan coast, in plastic bins. They’re ...

Sal, the sockeye salmon, teaches the kids about salt, fresh, and brackish water. The kids venture out to find the end of the ocean and discover a sockeye salmon, Sal, who teaches them about the ...

Preliminary forecasts estimate between 15,000 to 16,000 sockeye salmon returning, while there were upwards of 300,000 fish making it into the Okanagan River to spawn last year. Ryan Benson, a ...

Young adults are learning through hands-on restoration work in the Okanagan, as they preparing historic spawning grounds for ...

Mindi Eleazer, the wife of fishing guide Matt Eleazer, with a fine spring Chinook salmon she took from the Columbia River. (Photo courtesy of East Fork Outfitters) Anglers in Washington can expect ...

Editor’s Note: Alan Liere is on vacation, so he wrote about sockeye fishing instead of his weekly fish-hunt report. In July, I hope to fish again for sockeye salmon at the mouth of the Okanogan River ...