While the recent news was gloomy for low returns of coho salmon, it is quite the opposite for chum heading to Puget Sound and Hood Canal. “We’ve gotten in-season updates for chum in Hood Canal and ...

This year's Yukon River fall chum salmon run was the third-smallest on record. Early estimates published by the Alaska Department of Fish and Game (ADF&G) on Oct. 16 say that 200,000 fall chum were ...

Salmon runs on the Yukon River continued to be anemic this year, federal and state agencies reported, and there are far too few fish reaching Canada to meet goals set in a treaty between that nation ...

Commercial fishers harvesting from Alaska’s Upper Cook Inlet saw an above average season in 2025, with a run of 12 million ...

Finning gently in the current, they dip and swish gracefully in Piper’s Creek. These chum salmon are survivors, back home three to five years after they first nosed out into Puget Sound. And on ...

A sharp decline in chum salmon returns to Whatcom County this year is likely cyclical and isn’t an immediate cause for concern, a Bellingham fisheries scientist said. “The chum run was really low this ...

Chum salmon, one of five species of Pacific salmon, are starting to return to their natal streams in the South Sound and Hood Canal. Steve Bloom Staff file, 2013 Perhaps no creature is more emblematic ...