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 ...

RICHLAND, Wash - The sockeye salmon fishing limits along the Hanford Reach and Upper Columbia River have been reduced due to ...

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) ...

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.

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.

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.

A decreased forecast for returns of sockeye salmon has Washington fishery managers moving to limit angling for them in the Upper Columbia River starting on Monday. The Washington Department of Fish ...

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.

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.

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 ...