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.

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.

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.

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 ...

Unexpectedly, those of us who toil in the outdoors are running into much the same situation, and a pleasant one it is, dealing with a summer salmon season that just won’t quit. The saltwater ...

Hyvarinen’s catch was a 4.3-pound, 22-inch pink salmon, also known as a humpback salmon because of the very large hump on their back. It was judged to Ohio’s state record by the Ohio Division ...

Archaeologists believe Tlingit clans established summer salmon camps at the mouth of the Anan Creek and other rivers of the Tongass as far back as 3,000 years ago. Catching the fish in basket ...