Snake River sockeye ... July 25, 2021 In this June 27, 2012, photo, a sockeye salmon ... Hatchery managers at the Idaho Department of Fish and Game said they believe changes they made to the smolt ...

Every year, the ONA releases millions of sockeye smolt into the Okanagan channel in Penticton, British Columbia. The young salmon migrate down into Shaka Lake for one year, acting as a nursery for ...

High water blew out the weir on the Ayakulik River last week. They also blew through the high end of the escapement level for sockeye salmon there.

Salmon species appear to have benefited, including sockeye. “It’s 100% ocean,” said Eric Johnson, a sockeye specialist with the Idaho Department of Fish and Game. “Everything seems to be ...

The first Snake River sockeye salmon raised at the $14M Springfield Fish Hatchery returned to the Sawtooth Valley after living two years in the Pacific Ocean. Few Salmon smolts released that ...

It’s a big weekend at the Ballard Locks as sockeye salmon return as part of their journey upstream to spawn in Lake ...

A record number of sockeye returned to the Baker River this summer, and surprisingly more fish were still being counted at the fish trap this month. “We hit 50,000 sockeye (46,268 was the ...

Since the 1920s, annual adult sockeye returns to Baker River averaged about 3,500. In the early 1980s, returns plummeted, falling to just 99 fish in 1985.

The iconic Pacific salmon species has started its return to Redfish Lake this season after a decade-low 17 sockeye salmon — which give the lake its name — made their way back to Idaho in 2019.

Salmon are struggling to migrate in hot waters along their route. ... sockeye salmon have had a rough summer. These fish swim 900 miles from the Pacific Ocean, up fish ladders, over eight dams, ...