Salmon is a popular fish for food and sport fishing. Five species of salmon live in the North Pacific Ocean: Pink, Sockeye, Coho, Chum, and Chinook. One species, the Atlantic salmon, lives in the North Atlantic Ocean. Two other fish species that are...

A fish of the family Salmonidae of which there are a number of species. The salmon has a complex life cycle, being hatched from eggs laid in a freshwater river. The young fish hatches, remaining in the river to mature; after about 2 years it will be...

alex is the best Illustration of a male Coho Salmon The Chinook or King Salmon is the largest salmon in North America and can grow to 1.5 m (58 inches) in length and to 57 kg (125 pounds) in weight. This specimen shows the jaws drawn into a...

With another plan for restoring Atlantic salmon in Maine and another call for a lot of money to do it, policy-makers are at a critical juncture. A draft salmon recovery plan, released by the federal government last week, calls for a variety of steps...

The small brown, battered fish found in most breeding farms barely resemble the long silvery torpedoes we know as the aristocratic Atlantic salmon.... Farm fish, the marine equivalent of domesticated cattle, are being bred in ever greater numbers while salmon in the wild...

New York Observer plans to reduce its trim size. The paper's width will shrink from 13 3/4 inches to 12 1/2 inches, making it as wide as The Washington Post. The length will remain at 22 1/2 inches. Editor Peter Kaplan said that the...

The number of chinook salmon returning to California's Central Valley has reached a near-record low, pointing to an "unprecedented collapse" that could lead to severe restrictions on West Coast salmon fishing this year, according to federal fishery regulators.The sharp drop in chinook, or "king," salmon...

Discusses the issue of depleted salmon stocks. Describes how in Nova Scotia, Canada, acidification of rivers is a major threat to Atlantic salmon (Salmo salar) and the pH of river ways and lakes are decreasing and becoming more and more acidic every day.