Hydropower management, the fishing industry, and billions of dollars in government spending revolve around the fragile plight of Northwest salmon. And plenty has been written about coho, sockeye, and ...

After a sudden drop in returning salmon on the Coquille River, a new Oregon law allows old-fashioned hatchboxes to return.

Federal agencies will be increasing Columbia River flows to help spawning chum salmon. The U.S Army Corps of Engineers will be holding the Columbia River below Bonneville Dam between 11 1/2 feet and ...

In a new study, NOAA Fisheries scientists have analyzed how oceanic conditions influence Chinook and chum salmon bycatch in ...

SUBTLETY IS NOT its strong suit. When a brawny chum salmon, free swimming somewhere in the North Pacific, gets a signal from somewhere deep within the gravel of its DNA that it’s time to turn tail ...

Chum salmon counts are lower than ever this year in the Yukon-Kuskokwim Delta region. The Alaska Department of Fish and Game announced on June 21 that this summer has seen the lowest ever summer chum ...

Chum salmon, one of five species of Pacific salmon, are starting to return to their natal streams in the South Sound and Hood Canal. Steve Bloom Staff file, 2013 Perhaps no creature is more emblematic ...

“It’s hard to comprehend that this is happening in my lifetime. It makes me sad just thinking about it,” said Bill Alstrom of St. Mary’s. (Olivia Ebertz/KYUK) Bill Alstrom lives in St. Mary’s on the ...

A sharp decline in chum salmon returns to Whatcom County this year is likely cyclical and isn’t an immediate cause for concern, a Bellingham fisheries scientist said. “The chum run was really low this ...

In St. Mary’s, Alaska, the people of the Yupiit of Andreafski look to the south wind, the budding tree leaves, and even the formations of migrating birds to discern whether the pulse of salmon ...

The quest to rebuild runs of ugly chum has spread to a new Southwest Washington river. The Department of Fish and Wildlife recently released 105,000 juvenile chum into the East Fork of the Lewis River ...

This story originally appeared on KYUK and is republished here with permission. Chum salmon counts are lower than ever this year in the Yukon-Kuskokwim Delta region. The Alaska Department of Fish and ...