Once thriving, there are now believed to be just 73 Southern Resident killer whales left in Washington state's Puget Sound.

Puget Sound was a global kelp capital for millennia. If we work together, we can enlist the next generation of conservationists to jumpstart the recovery of kelp, salmon, and orca.

This year there have been at least 25 salmon derbies around Puget Sound — at Port Townsend, Port Angeles, Everett, one for high-school kids, one for Boeing Aircraft employes, one for Elks, one ...

Salmon rely on cool, oxygen-rich water to survive and spawn. In Puget Sound, excess nutrients come from point and non-point sources, McGowan said.

A carcass of a female coho salmon affected by the toxic chemical 6PPD-quinone in stormwater runoff in Seattle’s Longfellow Creek. This salmon died before spawning, retaining nearly 100% of its eggs.

Chinook salmon are the primary food for southern resident orcas that reside in Puget Sound in Washington and the Salish Sea waters of British Columbia from late spring through the fall, according ...

Pink salmon get their nickname from their propensity to bite on anything pink. WDFW also recommends a pink rotator lure or a Point Wilson-type jig.

An estimated 3.95 million pink salmon will make their way back to the natal rivers and streams of Puget Sound and Hood Canal this month. The 3- to 5-pound fish are aggressive and easy to catch ...

In this Jan. 18, 2014, file photo, endangered orcas swim in Puget Sound and in view of the Olympic Mountains just west of Seattle, as seen from a federal research vessel that has been tracking the ...