July 23 -- One way to understand how estuaries are important to salmon is to watch how the fish respond as damaged habitats are restored. Long ago, dikes were installed at sites along Oregon's ...

Throughout the PacificNorthwest, wetland habitats in estuaries have been destroyed or degraded. This is bad news for juvenile salmon, which rely on these marshyhabitats to make the transition from ...

This is the vision for Little Squalicum Estuary, a city of Bellingham project that aims to restore a vital salmon habitat along Bellingham Bay. The estuary will sit in the lower portion of Little ...

Idaho’s salmon run this year is beginning ... what scientists say is “delayed mortality” after the salmon reach the Columbia estuary below Bonneville Dam near Portland.

After a decade of planning, construction has begun on renovations at the waterfront park to create a 1.3-acre pocket estuary that will bring back Chinook, chum and coho salmon, as well as ...

Nearly 400 acres around Everett's Smith Island were flooded Tuesday to become an estuary for the threatened Chinook salmon. For 85 years it had been diked off for farming. Now, it is a critical ...

20. Little Squalicum Creek again empties into Bellingham Bay, with a new estuary designed to provide habitat for young salmon and other fish. It’s part of a $5.7 million project that began in ...

You could be anything from blue-green algae or a salt marsh plant, to a salmon or heron. There are a number of resources for identifying estuary life, including guides at places such as Capitol ...

Small flies and other aquatic bugs are a major food source for salmon. In the Stillaguamish River tidal estuary, where freshwater meets saltwater, those bugs are food for salmon. “We’re trying ...

During a three-year field study, researchers experimentally added pink salmon carcasses into the estuary of a small river in the Heiltsuk territory, on the central coast of British Columbia in ...

A sure sign that fall is near: Tumwater hatchery Chinook salmon make their way from Budd Inlet to the fish ladder at Capitol Lake as they return to spawn. Steve Bloom [email protected] Most ...

A century of log booms in the Cowichan-Koksilah estuary have not only degraded critical salmon-bearing habitat, they’ve given harbour seals an unfair advantage over fish coming in and out of the river ...