If you’re heading out to spot spawning salmon, here are some tips from the Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife:. For best viewing, visit in the early morning or late afternoon and bring ...

Spawning Sockeye salmon. Stuart Westmorland Getty Images Smashing records, sockeye salmon are booming up the Columbia River, in a run expected to top 700,000 fish before it’s over.

A sockeye salmon (top left) swims past a chinook salmon at the fish-counting window at the Bonneville Dam on June 27, 2012, near North Bonneville, Washington.

In the Pacific Northwest, some tributaries salmon travel through to spawn are so hot that it’s threatening their migration. In some places, biologists have trucked the fish to cooler water.

Spawning salmon have returned to Whatcom County creeks. ... Chinook salmon, Coho Salmon, Chum Salmon, Pink Salmon and Sockeye Salmon have been documented in Whatcom Creek.

Sockeye returned to Bristol Bay, Alaska - where many Washington fishermen and processors harvest - in record numbers this summer. It is confounding scientists.

Kokanee have been in Colorado since they were first introduced in 1951. They are similar to sockeye salmon but will never know the freedom of the sea.

A spawning sockeye salmon rests in the waters near the Eagle River Nature Center's boardwalk overlook on August 22, 2017. (Marc Lester / Alaska Dispatch News) ...

Bristol Bay’s sockeye salmon run totaled 51.6 million fish, more than a third higher than the preseason forecast of 37.9 million fish and about 7% higher than the average over the past 20 years ...

I have seen sockeye salmon swimming upstream to spawn even with their eyes pecked out. Even as they are dying, as their flesh is falling away from their spines, I have seen salmon fighting to protect ...

Smashing records, sockeye salmon are booming up the Columbia River, in a run expected to top 700,000 fish before it’s over. But a punishing heat wave has made river temperatures so hot many may ...

Smashing records, sockeye salmon are booming up the Columbia River, in a run expected to top 700,000 fish before it’s over. But a punishing heat wave has made river temperatures so hot many may ...