Reef net fishing intercepts chinook, coho, sockeye, chum and pink salmon as they travel from the Pacific Ocean to spawn in the Fraser River near present-day Washington state and British Columbia.

It took Riley Neal three and a half hours, a borrowed net, and a whole lot of grit to land the 51-pound king salmon he hooked near Angoon, Alaska on Thursday. But at only 15 years old, he’s too young ...

Venturing into deep, often treacherous waters. Winching ropes in gale-force winds. Leaning into waves that whip over the bows of their boats. Commercial fishermen face extraordinary on-the-job hazards ...

My fishing guide, Shiloh Patterson, vividly remembers the first time he hooked a king salmon back in 1997. The fight lasted only 10 seconds before his line snapped, but it was all he could talk about ...

Several recent scientific reports on the perilous state of Northwest salmon and Southern Resident killer whales collectively indicate that severely curtailing regional fishing practices, including and ...

Spring Chinook salmon fishing is reopening on the lower Columbia River for two weekends in May and four days in June, it was announced Wednesday, May 15, 2024, by Washington and Oregon fishery ...

“Barbie” isn’t the only phenomenon bringing out the color pink across Seattle this summer. On August mornings at West Seattle’s Lincoln Park, there have been countless flashes of pink at the ends of ...

The ocean and river salmon seasons in California are likely to be closed or severely restricted this year based on low abundance forecasts for Sacramento and Klamath River fall-run Chinook salmon that ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. William "Captain Smitty" Smith stands for a portrait at Pillar Point Harbor in Half Moon Bay in 2024. (Loren Elliott / For The ...

Salmon netting was hit with an indefinite moratorium by the Scottish Government in 2019 after a successful case was made by ...