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 ...

Some fish live in freshwater streams and lakes. Other fish live in the ocean, in saltwater. Then there are salmon who do both. Salmon are anadromous, meaning they live part of their lives in ...

The Alaska Salmon Research Task Force is seeking public input on its report about Alaska salmon and their life cycles. Members of the federal group — which formed in June — are tasked with building a ...

For all the impacts of other endangered species on the human communities they coexist with — owls and timber harvesting, wolves and ranching — there are few species that have affected more people than ...

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, ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Liz writes about the ocean and its protection. "The only thing that we have in this whole area with an up and down, ...

A steelhead trout caught in the Gulf of Alaska in 1990 aboard the fishing vessel W.E. Ricker is prepared for release after being tagged by researchers. A massive new analysis of high seas salmon ...