Once thriving, there are now believed to be just 73 Southern Resident killer whales left in Washington state's Puget Sound.

Lurking beneath the surface of Washington's Puget Sound are some of nature's most magnificent and endangered species: orca ...

Moon jellies, a species of jellyfish living in the Puget Sound, appear to be able to consume large portions of zooplankton which are a food source for young salmon. Skip Navigation Share on Facebook ...

The smallest of the five species of salmon that migrate ... but the 2009 run which includes just under 5 million pinks into Puget Sound fisheries that lie within easy reach of a metro ...

“A lot of contaminants end up in the sediment. We want a species that is living there and feeding in the sediments," West explained. “In the sediments, the contaminant loads in Puget Sound are ...

Last year and in 2022, the scientists caught nine sevengills in South Puget Sound, near Olympia, Schulte said. Eight of them were male, measuring under 7 feet and the female was about 4 1/2 feet long.

The state Department of Fish and Wildlife has closed recreational and non-tribal commercial salmon fishing in Puget Sound, after the state and tribes failed to come to an agreement over annual ...

In 2021, about 3.7 million pink salmon returned to Puget Sound. "Pink salmon tend to swim in high-density aggregations, sort of at the shoreline, so they are a bit easier for folks to observe.

Puget Sound was a global kelp capital for millennia. If we work together, we can enlist the next generation of conservationists to jumpstart the recovery of kelp, salmon, and orca.

Last week, researchers from Oregon State University documented two shark species in Puget Sound for the first time. Taylor Chapple, assistant professor and head of the Big Fish Lab at OSU, joins ...

Jul. 31—There's a new pair of apex predators in Puget Sound. Two species of shark, one of which is critically endangered in some places, have been found in South Puget Sound, sparking a bit of ...

Two species of shark, one of which is critically endangered in some places, have been found in South Puget Sound, sparking a bit of mystery surrounding the region’s marine habitat, scientists ...