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

Emergency Order 2-RS-1-29-25 opens the Russian River Sanctuary Area to sport fishing for sockeye salmon. Emergency Order 2-RS ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.

SEATTLE — Earlier this summer, the record return of sockeye salmon on the Columbia River looked to be doomed by water too warm to pass. But the run got a well-timed break from the heat.

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 ...

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 ...