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Basic ocean conditions such as current directions and water temperature play a huge role in determining the behavior of young migrating salmon as they move from rivers and hit ocean waters for the ...

Pacific Northwest National Laboratory Salmon researchers are turning to sound to learn more about the fish they're trying to understand. There is a lot of data about salmon out there, and that data is ...

Scientists have proven new miniature tagging and tracking technologies can follow the travels of small salmon through vast distances and highly dissimilar waters - from as far as the Rocky Mountain ...

Salmon carry a strontium chemical signature in their "ear bones" that lets scientists identify specific streams where the fish hatched and lived before they were caught at sea. The new tool may help ...

For nature lovers, the pilgrimage to Lagunitas Creek to watch the returning salmon is as much a winter ritual as the salmon run itself. Given the public interest, and the continued restoration of the ...

One thousand young salmon have been tracked on their risky journey from the American Rockies, down two rivers, through hydroelectric dams, out to sea, and up the Pacific coast of the US and Canada.

The crew dropped 20 detectors, each about 1.5 miles apart, off the mouth of the Columbia River. Cape Disappointment, the southwest tip of Washington, is in the background. RICHLAND, Wash. — Ocean ...