This should not be news. Salmon are famous for their simple life cycle: Hatch in a stream, migrate to the ocean, and return to the stream to spawn at their life’s end.

It opened in 1978 and helps supplement runs of mostly chum salmon, along with Chinook, sockeye, and coho salmon. This would explain why so many fish are jammed in the creek in the Winters’ video.

The California Department of Water Resources reported that more than 17,000 spring-run Chinook salmon returned to spawn this ...

Maine pioneered dam removal to restore salmon runs. Now millions of fish, among them alewives, are swimming upriver again to inland spawning grounds. Every spring, alewives—a kind of river ...

Under the terms of a settlement agreement, there could soon be new federal protections for the Chinook, the largest of all ...

This photo series capturing efforts to save the Chinook salmon of the Klamath river in the western US won the New Scientist Editors Award at the Earth Photo 2025 competition ...