Will hatchery-raised salmon have a better chance of surviving their journey to the Pacific Ocean and back if they get a 75-mile head start? That's the question a three-year study hopes to answer ...

Anglers have more time to go after hatchery steelhead on Salmon Creek. The Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife set the season beginning Sunday (March 16) through May 23. The WDFW said in a ...

New research from Oregon State University suggests hatchery-raised salmon, which are bred to help bolster wild stocks in B.C. and elsewhere, are genetically different from the populations they're ...

Proponents fear hatchery salmon are out-competing other salmon species like chinook in the marine environment. But hatchery professionals warn that the reduction could harm Alaska's seafood sector.

Between 80 and 200 Chinook salmon spawn at Nimbus Fish Hatchery in Gold River each day from early November through this Friday, ending their life cycle with an ascent up the fish ladder to the ...

The Tsilhqot’in National Government in British Columbia says it has formed a "historic partnership" with the federal Fisheries Department to develop a permanent salmon conservation hatchery in ...

The Washougal River winter steelhead hatchery program will close near the end of the year. The Deep River net pens coho salmon program in Wahkiakum County will close by April. And the Kalama River ...

The Seymour Salmon Hatchery in North Vancouver hosts “Gently Down the Seymour,” a program where students use microscopes and thermometers to explore the life and habitat of the Seymour River ...

Drawn by late-summer rains, hatchery-produced Chinook salmon are returning to the mouth of Whatcom Creek in downtown Bellingham, said the Washington Department of Fish & Wildlife (WDFW ...

Some 1–5% — millions of individuals a year — stray into nearby streams, where they can breed with wild salmon. Alaskan state law prohibits hatchery production from harming wild salmon ...

Salmon hatcheries have helped push annual pink salmon harvests in Prince William Sound from about 4 million fish prior to hatchery programs to roughly 50 million in recent years. Using data ...

Atlantic salmon at the Harrietta State Fish Hatchery near its namesake village in Wexford County didn't show enough improvement following a 28-day course of antibiotics, said hatchery Natural ...