The good news is a Puget Sound forecast of 559,045 coho (267,745 wild and 291,301 hatchery) is a drastic increase from last year’s dismal forecast of 255,403 (87,359 and 168,585) that led to one of ...

The sweet seep of autumn rain is bringing coho salmon back home to their natal streams all over the Puget Sound basin — where too often they encounter a bitter truth: pollution in a shocking 40 ...

From left, researchers Jen McIntyre, Edward Kolodziej and Zhenyu Tian study the stormwater impacts on coho salmon in Longfellow Creek in the Seattle area. (Mark Stone / University of Washington) When ...

Coho salmon continue to die in Puget Sound creeks after rainstorms. The deaths were linked to bits of car tires shed from road friction into stormwater runoff in 2018. Washington State University’s ...

First they circle. Then they gasp at the surface of the water. Soon they can’t swim. Then they die. For decades now, scientists have known something was killing beautiful, adult coho salmon as soon as ...

Puget Sound cohos are still no-shows, for the most part. "The town is full, campgrounds full, moorage full, but the fishing is slow," said Chris Mohr, proprietor of Van Riper's Resort at Sekiu on the ...

SEATTLE — Puget Sound is an endangered beauty. "More people, the more demand on water, the more demand on water quality. And, so far, we’re losing more habitat than we’re restoring," said Suquamish ...

When autumn rains return to western Washington, so do coho salmon. But in many of the creeks they swim up, something in the water leaves fishes gasping for air. They die quickly, before they manage to ...