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 ...

Salmon is widely recognised as the King of Fishes because of its strength, endurance, and unique life cycle. Discover why ...

Early on a recent Wednesday morning, anglers in Anchorage lined Ship Creek and cast lines to catch returning chinook salmon. Just minutes after 6 a.m., shouts of “fish on!” fluttered across the shore.

Jan. 11—The students in Brooke Shamhart's fifth-grade class at Reese Elementary School crowded around the small aquarium at the back of the room Thursday morning in anticipation of watching a handful ...

Nature designed California’s Chinook salmon to be our forever fish. Why else would each spawning pair of adults produce about 5,000 fertilized eggs? If 99.96% of these eggs fail to produce adults that ...

In Fulbright Park on a Wednesday afternoon, dozens of fifth graders released salmon fry into Ahtanum Creek. The release was the culmination of a detailed, months-long program to teach kids about the ...