It’s a little past 1 a.m. in Igiugig, and I’m headed down the Kvichak to a fish trap set up to catch sockeye salmon smolt. Researchers from the Bristol Bay Science and Research Institute are ...

Last year, Nemeth and his team estimated that 61 million sockeye smolt swam by the first of two sonar sites, which is closer to the village of Igiugig, and Lake Iliamna, where the juvenile salmon ...

When the Cook Inlet Aquaculture Association first studied the sockeye returns there in the 1980s, the lake seemed to sustain a reasonable smolt outmigration and adult return each year.

Each spring, the sockeye smolt swam unimpeded to the sea for the cycle to begin anew. Their troubles began with the rise of commercial fishing in the mid 19th century as Columbia River canneries ...

At 3-5 pounds, sockeye are the smallest salmon, yet they rival spring chinook for taste. They are abundant in Alaska and Canada, and Puget Sound has several large runs. The Columbia River is the ...

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 ...

It’s a fishy first. Tacoma Public Utilities last month crews released 30,000 sockeye salmon smolt into Lake Cushman, a Tacoma Power-managed reservoir in Mason County.

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 ...

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 ...

A new study indicates a biological Hail Mary employed to save Idaho’s critically imperiled sockeye salmon may have saved the species from extinction, and it shows promise the long-distance ...

Freshwater fishing. Fishing opened on the Kenai and Russian rivers on Wednesday, June 11. As of Tuesday evening, only one sockeye salmon had been counted at the Russian River weir.