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2025 was an eventful year for salmon, orcas and humans. We opened the year with orca mother Tahlequah again carrying a deceased calf in the Salish Sea. The southern resident orcas continue to try to ...

Warm Salmon Salad With Orange Vinaigrette makes a delicious dinner. The pomegranate seeds add a flavor punch to the mild orange-juice-based dressing. They also look beautiful sprinkled on the fish and ...

Orcas are renowned hunters. Now, they have surprised scientists with an unexpected twist — possibly getting help from dolphins. In the waters off British Columbia, marine ecologist Sarah Fortune and ...

2025 is the year for salmon success in California's Yuba River. A nonprofit organization dedicated to protecting and restoring the watershed has positive results to share this year. "Just in the last ...

Almost every day, you will find amateur photographers Dan Sarka and David Young traversing the trails around Alameda Creek, looking to capture and document the return of Chinook salmon in the Niles ...

An apex predator threatening a key sector in the U.S. Pacific Northwest is now the unlikely source of a bipartisan alliance in the House of Representatives. Sea lions and their impact on salmon are a ...

If you think something is off with added smoke flavoring in salmon, you're not alone. Many consumers are skeptical of salmon that hasn't been smoked in the traditional way. In Norway, no buffet is ...

(CNN) — A pod of Pacific white-sided dolphins off the coast of British Columbia have been observed cooperating with orcas, a traditional enemy that’s better known for taking out great white sharks ...

Kendra Pierre-Louis: For Scientific American’s Science Quickly, I’m Kendra Pierre-Louis, in for Rachel Feltman. If you’re of a certain generation, you might be able to trace your affinity for orcas to ...

On Dec. 12, Gov. Gavin Newsom touted the "comeback" of coho salmon after state officials spotted juvenile fish in the Russian River's upper basin—the first such sighting in more than 30 years. As the ...