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

First Nations urge federal and BC governments to commit to a long-term funding agreement by January 2026 after two fish ...

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

A salmon reintroduction initiative in B.C. is celebrating after two tagged adult sockeye, released as juvenile fry two years ...

WDFW reports 91,880 sockeye returned to Skagit and Baker River system in 2025. 1.5 million juvenile sockeye passed Baker Lake collectors in May 2025. PSE, Upper Skagit, Swinomish and WDFW expanded ...

A record number of sockeye salmon returned to Skagit Bay and the Skagit River this year on their annual spawning migration. From June through October, more than 91,880 sockeye returned to the Skagit ...

Fat Bear 2025 named the winning bear after voting completed on Sept. 30. Bears Chunk and 856 made the final round Charlotte Phillipp is a Weekend Writer-Reporter at PEOPLE. She has been working at ...

The commercial salmon harvest in Alaska’s Bristol Bay, site of the world’s largest sockeye salmon runs, held a mixture of good news and bad news this year. The run of sockeye salmon, also known as red ...

“The bears are extremely fat this year, and I’m looking forward to seeing how people react to how fat they are,” says the former ranger who helped invent the popular contest. The Fat Bear Week ...

Each year, the burly bears of Katmai National Park and Preserve capture global attention in a March Madness-style bracket challenge as fans pick which bear advances in each round. “The bears have been ...

Fat Bear Week 2025 is upon us, and the burliest bears of Katmai National Park have been working hard all season to chonk up for the annual competition, with the lineup of competitors dropping today, ...