As Glaciers Retreat, Mining Companies Stake Claims In New Salmon Habitat
The retreat of glaciers along the B.C.-Alaska border opens up thousands of new kilometers of potential salmon habitat and could offer a refuge from hotter …
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Schools of salmon and more illegal fishing gear
The Aquatic Monkey jumps back into one of his favorite swimming spots to hang out with salmon and clean out some of the illegal fishing …
How Far Will Salmon Swim for a Craft Beer?
Oregon researchers hope a surprising aroma will lure stray salmon back to their home hatcheries. If scientists at the Oregon Hatchery Research Center have their …
The Living Estuary: Pacific Salmon
How do British Columbia’s estuaries give young salmon the best chance at survival in the open ocean?
I Am Salmon
An evocative poem about humanity as told by a transcendent fish.
EPA seeks to protect salmon and steelhead from 4 pesticides
The US Environmental Protection Agency has put restrictions on four pesticides to save endangered Pacific salmon and steelhead species from extinction. The new mitigation measures, …
Salmon colonized the Puget lowland about 14,900 years ago
Beginning about 14,900 years ago, salmon begin to colonize Puget Sound. During the last ice age, when a 3,000-foot-thick glacier moved out of Canada and …
Roadway Runoff Known to Kill Coho also Affects Steelhead, Chinook Salmon
Stormwater runoff containing a toxic compound from automobile tires that washes into streams is lethal to protected coho salmon, Pacific steelhead, and Chinook salmon, according …
$95 Million to reverse the declines of West Coast salmon and steelhead
NOAA Fisheries is recommending more than $95 million in funding for 19 new and continuing programs and projects to support West Coast salmon and steelhead …
Study Warns Western Mining Boom Puts Salmon Species At Risk
Authorities are underestimating the risk that growth in mining activity poses to salmon populations in the Pacific Northwest, a group of 23 scientists and policy …