While a few doors on spring fishing opportunities close, many others have swung wide open with decent action reported. Lingcod fishing in Puget Sound, which started off on slow side when it opened May ...

After one of the largest fish-farm escapes in history, the state Department of Fish and Wildlife has approved a permit for Cooke Aquaculture to rear another 1 million Atlantic salmon in Puget Sound.

(CN) - Puget Sound's Saratoga Passage and Skagit Bay are not within the Suquamish Tribe's historical fishing grounds in Washington state, the 9th Circuit ruled, upholding a ruling for the Upper Skagit ...

NEAR OLYMPIA, Wash. -- More than 40 scientists in U.S. and Canadian waters are catching batches of young salmon to find out why they can be so healthy in the rivers but begin to die off in Puget Sound ...

SEATTLE -- Forget fishing for salmon. Puget Sound crab pots are so passé. Squid is in. For the first time in a couple decades, officials have tested squid in Puget Sound for metals and other ...

Salmon fishing in the ocean off Washington is plugging along in unspectacular fashion, but Puget Sound anglers don't have to travel far to find fish. King salmon are being taken at decent rates from ...

For years, Atlantic salmon have been raised in floating net pens Cooke Aquaculture owns in Rich Passage off the south end of Bainbridge Island. Following a state ban on nonnative fish farming in 2018, ...

Federal officials are not violating the Endangered Species Act by allowing fishing for Puget Sound salmon -- even though it kills up to three-quarters of the fish protected under the law -- U.S.

KINGSTON — State authorities allege that a man claiming membership in the Yakama Nation Indian Tribe was fishing illegally in Suquamish Tribe waters near Kingston in an unmarked boat and that a Yakama ...

BELFAIR, Wash. -- A massive fish kill on Puget Sound is being blamed on the recent holiday weekend hot weather. Thousands of anchovies have washed up on the shores of Case Inlet at Belfair. "It's sad.