Commercial salmon fishing is set to resume along the California coast this spring for the first time since 2022. Fishery regulators plan to allow a fishing season with strict catch limits.

By Emily Chen, Katherine Lumahan, Rachel Johnson, Corey Phillis, George Whitman, Anna Sturrock, Will Satterthwaite, and Stephanie Carlson . . . Wild Pacific salmon and trout exhibit complex variation ...

Gov. Newsom vetoed a bill that would have required data centers to report their projected water use when applying for a business license.

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Some senior scientists at a federal research center in Seattle are calling it quits after leading some of the region's most important scientific breakthroughs.

Conventionally, juvenile salmonids are thought to migrate unidirectionally from freshwater systems to marine systems and therefore only inhabit natal drainages. Although scattered evidence suggests j....

California research institutions could lose access to millions of dollars, which could impact atmospheric river forecasts and Coast Guard rescues.

Revisions to the law center on ‘harm,’ which would allow far more mining, drilling and other development that threatens critical habitat.

The agency forecasts weather, manages fisheries, and researches the world's oceans, atmosphere, and climate. The proposed budget cuts would slash the climate work entirely.

We show that intrapopulation variation in juvenile movement and rearing strategies enhances population stability in endangered coho salmon near their southern range limit. However, variation in reari...

The Russian River estuary just downstream of the confluence with Willow Creek. New research published today in Ecology Letters from the Stone Center found that coho salmon, one of five Pacific salmon...

Climate change is shifting the timing of organismal life-history events. Although consequential food-web mismatches can emerge if predators and prey shift at different rates, research on phenological...

In the narrow, highly specialized field of fish with blob-like attributes, one fish has dominated for decades: One would hardly dare imagine a blobbish fish without first thinking of the blobfish. But...