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Salmon tends to cook way faster than other meats, due to the flesh having shorter muscle fibers. This can lead your filets to become overcooked quickly.

Thousands of farmed salmon broke out of a pen in Iceland this August, but don't start cheering for the escapees. The farmed fish pose great risk to the area's wild salmon,...

This is an annual reminder that a number of nearby fishing waters will be closing for the year at sunset on September 30. Those waters include the following:

President Joe Biden directed federal agencies to use all available authorities and resources to restore "healthy and abundant" Columbia River Basin salmon runs.

Salmon, originally, the large fish now usually called the Atlantic salmon (Salmo salar), though more recently the name has been applied to similar fishes of the same family (Salmonidae), especially the Pacific salmon, which constitute the genus Oncorhynchus. The six species of Pacific salmon

Researchers have confirmed that salmon are spawning in an Arctic Ocean watershed, suggesting that at least some salmon species could be expanding to new territory as climate change reshapes their habitat.

Researchers discovered that salmon emerged in Arctic rivers, which could be likely due to the impacts of climate change. Climate change can affect the habitats of aquatic species. Read here.

OLYMPIA, Wash.-Rule changes regarding Chinook and Coho salmon fishing and retention on the Snake River is now in effect through October 29.

Order stops short of calling for removal of hydroelectric dams on the Lower Snake River in Washington state, which tribes and conservationists have urged.

Here is this weeks fishing report for rivers, lakes and streams in Nevada, Northern California, Lake Tahoe, the Sierra and Southern Oregon. This report is for the week of April 11-17, 2012.