The victims were Coho salmon, showing up dead in urban streams in Puget Sound around Seattle in very suspicious circumstances.

For more than two decades, scientists couldn’t explain why most — if not all — coho salmon in Washington’s Puget Sound area would suddenly go belly-up during their annual migration ...

Washington state has failed to meet federal requirements that help prioritize cleanup efforts in Puget Sound to help salmon and steelhead listed as threatened there, according to the Government ...

Studies have shown that the chemical is lethal within hours of exposure for juvenile coho and within two days of exposure for juvenile steelhead and chinook salmon. The Puget Sound area waterways ...

RELATED: One way to help coho salmon survive NW pollution The 2023 pink salmon run is expected to peak now through early September. In 2021, about 3.7 million pink salmon returned to Puget Sound.

A local anglers’ group raised 30,000 coho salmon in a net pen under a fishing pier. Future fishermen will reap the rewards. EDMONDS — Opening the net was like a dam breaking. Thirty thousand ...

The local salmon populations have declined as much ... the Suquamish and Muckleshoot Tribes have combined efforts to bring coho back to Puget Sound. "We raise these fish to replace the ones ...

North of Ayock Point will be open July 10 to Oct. 31 for a coho-only fishery. Pinks a plenty The Puget Sound pink salmon prediction is about 3.95 million and similar to the 3.77 million return in 2021 ...

SEATTLE — Since the early 1990s, scientists up and down the West coast have known about a mysterious killer lurking in the waters of urban creeks wiping out populations of Coho salmon.