Hatcher manager Andy Garry removes a coho (silver) salmon from the raceway during an egg take at the William Jack Hernandez Sport Fish Hatchery near Ship Creek in Anchorage on Wednesday.

Preston Brown, director of watershed conservation for the nonprofit Salmon Protection and Watershed Network, measures a coho salmon smolt in San Geronimo Creek near Lagunitas on Friday, May 5, 2023.

Thousands of captive-bred salmon smolt escape into wrong river In this Thursday, March 9, 2017, photo, hundreds of juvenile coho salmon are released into the Lostine River from a water tanker truck.

Aug. 4—Jeremy Salvador was all smiles on Tuesday as he processed three silver salmon at the cleaning table at Anchorage's Ship Creek Bridge. Salvador has been reaching his limit of three silvers ...

Trolling in Chequamegon Bay near Washburn on May 1 provided limit catches of coho salmon for anglers.

Ridgefield fourth graders paraded down Fifth Avenue to Division Street with precious cargo in tow as they ventured into Abrams Park to release young coho salmon smolt in Gee Creek last week.

New permeable pavements may retain toxic chemicals shed from car tires, preventing them from leaking into streams where coho salmon spawn.

The coho run is all but done with less than 1,000 making it to the hatchery in the past reporting period. There are some additional hatchery winter steelhead beginning to show.

Fall salmon fishing has been very good this year, and now that the mainstem Columbia is finally cooling off for Chinook, many anglers will be looking to the tributaries for late returning coho salmon.

A tanker carrying young salmon crashed. But most of the fish flopped into a creek and “hit the water running,” a wildlife official said.