A grizzly bear approaches as technician Jacob Blanchard with the Alaska Department of Fish and Game counts salmon at a weir on the Chilkoot River. Weirs can be prime fishing grounds for bears, and ...

Adult fall-run Chinook salmon congregate near the Nimbus Hatchery Fish Ladder on the American River in Sacramento County in this October 2012 file photo. (Photo by Carl Costas/California Department of ...

Farmers can estimate the size of a harvest months in advance by counting the blossoms on their trees. Similarly, salmon fishers can cast an eye into the future by counting spawning fish in a river.

It would be an easy fix if the trawl fleet were to blame for the declines in Western Alaska salmon. The numbers tell a different story.

The folks who oversee the fish counting procedures at the dams on the lower Columbia River have been quite busy as of late. Not only is this prime time for the almost always large run of shad swimming ...

They swam for more than 350 miles against the current. Past dams that once stopped them. Through waters that hadn't seen ...

HAINES, Alaska — In the middle of the fast-flowing Chilkoot River, an Alaska state employee sits on a small perch over a narrow, fence-like structure and stares down into the rush of water. Eagles ...

The low count of returning adult salmon, made by the federally operated Coleman National Fish Hatchery, is preliminary, with several weeks left in the natural spawning period for the Sacramento Valley ...