It’s sink or swim, eat or be eaten when smolts hit the ocean. The conditions there can play an outsized role in how many of them survive to adulthood and return to fresh water rivers to spawn. But the ...

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 local anglers’ group raised 30,000 coho salmon in a net pen under a fishing pier. Future fishermen will reap the rewards. EDMONDS — Opening the net was like a dam breaking. Thirty thousand coho ...

The well-known salmon life cycle has long been described as going only one way at a time. Juvenile salmon hatch and swim down rivers to the ocean, where they grow and mature before returning to the ...

The Michigan Department of Natural Resources recently collected nearly 6.5 million wild coho salmon eggs in less than three weeks. The coho salmon eggs were collected from Oct. 15 to Nov. 1 at the ...