Scotland’s salmon crisis
It is a grim picture across Scotland’s famous salmon fishing rivers, including the Spey and the Dee. JUst released official figures show that 2018 was the worst …
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Bear’s EXTREME Salmon Fishing
Bears know how dangerous fishing can be, and every step can be a matter of life or death.
Groups Lobby Judge for Immediate Fixes to Salmon-Killing Dams
Environmental groups urged a judge to order immediate changes to the government’s operation of a series of dams in the upper Willamette River basin, saying …
Salmon Derbies Flounder Under Stricter Chinook Regulations
Salmon fishing derbies award prizes for the biggest fish and raise significant money for conservation. But imminent new rules on sport fishing may put an …
The Secret Lives of Salmon: Plastics, whales and a freezer on the open ocean
On the North Pacific Ocean more than 1,000 kilometers from the nearest human settlement, the Russian research vessel Kaganovsky is finding evidence that our polluting …
A Lean Year for Orcas and Fishermen
Most Washington state salmon returns predicted to be worse than last year. Fisheries professionals are working to set fishing seasons on both sides of the …
The secret lives of salmon: Scientists to probe ailing Pacific stocks
Twenty-one scientists from Russia, Canada, the United States, Japan and South Korea have taken residence on the Russian research ship MV Professor Kaganovsky for an …
Experts say Idaho’s salmon, steelhead could be gone in a generation
For the third year in a row, biologists predict that Idaho’s salmon and steelhead runs will be very low in 2019, and many tributaries might …
Old-time ichthyologist’s fish story throws light on climate change
Bill Nichols’s story begins on the mighty Columbia River and a fork of the Willamette River, moves to the wide Missouri and culminates with an …
Slime proves valuable in developing method for counting salmon in Alaska
Scientists have published a novel method for counting Pacific salmon—analyzing DNA from the slime the fish leave behind in their spawning streams. “When we analyzed …