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

Washington state instated a law Jan. 1 requiring boaters to stay at least 1,000 feet away from orcas. The authors urge the ...

Many salmon die in Puget Sound, ... sport and tribal fishing in all marine waters in the U.S. and Canada reduces the amount of adult 4- and 5-year-old chinook returning to Puget Sound rivers by ...

SEATTLE — 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 ...

Puget Sound chinook salmon use habitat in several area rivers — including the Skagit — and in tributary streams and estuaries throughout the Skagit River delta.

The northern Puget Sound hatchery chinook fishery will come to an end after Thursday, but there are many other crowning moments to catch a king. The preliminary catch estimate showed 2,898 ...

Overall, chinook salmon runs in Puget Sound are down between 20 and 25 percent from last year, and coho salmon also are expected to return in low numbers this year, said John Long, ...

News; Washington; Puget Sound salmon take in human drugs, which may hurt survival Fri., April 6, 2018 In this Sept. 23, 2015 photo, a spring chinook salmon reaches the end of the run at the ...

The Chinook salmon that they mostly rely on, their population is crashing because of habitat destruction," said Roberts, the Puget Sound program director for Washington Conservation Action.

B.C. salmon stocks in general are at just 36 percent of runs in the 1800s, and Puget Sound stocks are also at a fraction of their historic abundance, Oceans Initiative's Williams and his co ...

As negotiations continue, the Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife temporarily closed recreational and non-tribal commercial salmon fishing in Puget Sound this month after the state and ...