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 ...

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 ...

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, ...