Somehow humpies don’t get much respect in the hierarchy of Pacific salmon. I’d never caught a humpy before, and they were all right with me.

CLEVELAND, Ohio — Pink salmon, or “humpies,” are prolific in Alaska, but this year surprising numbers of them have been showing up attempting to spawn in Lake Erie’s rivers and streams.

Jones says it’s natural to see salmon die-offs, and pink salmon populations crash eventually, but losing this many humpies early in the spawning season could be the tipping point.

Pink salmon, which are also called humpback salmon or humpies for short, are routinely observed in low numbers climbing fish ladders at dams on the Columbia River and, in rare occurrences, on the ...

Alaska's 2025 commercial salmon harvest reached over 129 million fish through Aug. 12, with sockeye, keta and coho catches appearing on pace to reach total annual projections.

The $45,000 boat/motor/trailer package offered by the Northwest Marine Trade Association as the grand prize for its year-long Northwest Salmon Derby Series went to Ivan Lee of Sammamish.

MIKE WOOD: There's some humpies, silvers - some chum's in there too two. HARBALL: Wood's a small-scale commercial salmon fishermen and a consummate Alaskan.

Sports Local anglers get chance to fish for Pink salmon A recently announced fishery on the Snohomish River opens Sunday through Sept. 3. By Mike Benbow Special to The Herald Saturday, August 31 ...