chinook salmon

Federal officials have approved a plan that calls for cutting nontribal salmon fishing along the West Coast when the fish are needed to help the Northwest’s endangered killer whales.

In another blow to the operators of the Electron Dam on the Puyallup River, a judge in federal District Court has barred its parent company from diverting…

For more than a decade, Brad Hanson and other researchers have tailed the Pacific Northwest's endangered killer whales in a hard-sided inflatable boat,…

Chinook salmon – the Northwest’s largest and most iconic fish species – are shrinking.Researchers have documented that adult kings returning from the…

One of the biggest issues facing Puget Sound’s endangered Southern Resident killer whales is a lack of Chinook salmon, their preferred food. A Seattle…

Low numbers of Chinook salmon expected to return to the Columbia River this summer have led state and tribal officials to close that fishery until Aug. 1.…

The state Department of Fish and Wildlife has launched two months of public meetings as regulators decide how much salmon can be harvested from state…

If you want to keep Puget Sound's endangered orca whales from going extinct, you have to make sure they have enough to eat. That’s a key message from…

A new calf was spotted Friday among the population of critically endangered Southern Resident orcas.Ken Balcomb, of the Center for Whale Research, told…

The Army Corps of Engineers has trimmed a year off the timeline for its court-ordered environmental review of the 14 dams and reservoirs in the Columbia…