The endangered whales face multiple threats, from a lack of their primary food, chinook salmon, to underwater noise from vessels that makes it harder to hunt, as well as pollution and inbreeding.

Just 74 southern resident orcas remain, as of the latest count by the Center for Whale Research. The count has hovered around this low point for several years.

While anglers are celebrating a strong start to the salmon season, a new Simon Fraser University study warns coho salmon are under serious threat. Marine heat waves and overfishing are among the ...

PORTLAND, Ore. (KATU) — The Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife has closed fishing on the lowest reach of Eagle Creek in the Clackamas basin. Officials say the closure will give coho salmon a safe ...

Pink and Chinook salmon reach spawning peak in Pierce County through October. Top viewing locations include Veteran’s Park, South Prairie Creek and Foothills Trail. WDFW urges respectful observation ...

KLAMATH FALLS, Ore. — Spencer Creek will close to fishing Sept. 30, a month earlier than usual, to protect fall Chinook salmon that have returned for the first time in more than a century after dam ...

Anglers will get four more days to fish for fall chinook and coho salmon on most of the Columbia River. Oregon and Washington fish managers met Wednesday and approved fishing for chinook and hatchery ...

Cliff Chamberlan has fished the Salmon River in Upstate New York since the early 1970s, when the first large runs of stocked salmon began spawning there. “Those were the beginning years,” Chamberlan ...

PORTLAND, Ore. (CN) — While a controversial southern Oregon dam may delay the migration of a threatened species of salmon, the impact isn’t significant enough to violate federal environmental laws, a ...

Coho salmon continue to die in Puget Sound creeks after rainstorms. The deaths were linked to bits of car tires shed from road friction into stormwater runoff in 2018. Washington State University’s ...

PULLMAN, Wash. — Scientists at Washington State University’s (WSU) Puyallup Research & Extension Center have been working to find out why coho salmon in Puget Sound creeks seem to suffocate after ...