Commercial fishing boats are scrambling to catch as many Atlantic salmon as they can after a net pen broke near Washington's Cypress Island. Fishers reported thousands of the non-native fish ...

The fish were thick at Lopez Island Thursday, where fishermen out for smelt instead hauled in Atlantic salmon, and the fish were jumping in bays and coves all around the island.

Up to 305,000 escaped salmon are heading for “every river in Puget Sound,” and Washington state has asked for the public to help catch them. If you’re headed out fishing this weekend, the ...

Saboteurs who slashed five cages on a salmon farm in New Brunswick, Canada, have released thousands of farm-bred fish just at the time when local wild salmon are spawning. If they interbreed with ...

The fish are the first of this year’s Atlantic salmon to make their way up the Teme. Four or five years old, they have come all the way from Greenland via the River Severn.

Atlantic Salmon release hopes to ... US Fish and Wildlife Service and the Penobscot Indian Nation to co-manage the species and try to help jump-start recovery and put the species on the ...

In Denmark, for example, the removal of a 1.1-metre-high weir along the river Idom in Jutland opened up 15km of spawning grounds to adult Atlantic salmon. Within a year, 100 newborn fish just 50 ...

Dozens of voracious sea lions have broken into an industrial fish farm in British Columbia, where they are feasting on Atlantic salmon as staff try unsuccessfully to move them out.

A heavy duty, aluminum fish ladder was installed today in Scotch Settlement to help Atlantic salmon return to their spawning ground, with the hope fish populations will rise. A group of volunteers ...

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