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.

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.

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.

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 ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...