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Dolly Varden trout can expand their organs to more than two times their regular sizes, a new study says.
Posted by The annual arrival of spring chinook salmon to inland rivers makes March an eagerly anticipated time of year for fishermen and seafood lovers on the Pacific Coast. Anglers wait all year for the chance to land a hulking silvery chinook, commonly known as a king salmon, and consumers enjoy eating this tasty fish. When it…
There’s no place like home—and now scientists have figured out how salmon get there.
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Just as I was getting ready to head out for my Christmas break yesterday, my email Inbox signals that the Federal Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has released its recommendation to approve the first-ever, genetically-engineered animal for human consumption. For those who track the FDA, they know this isn’t unusual – the agency often makes…
Posted by According to a recent report on ABC’s 20/20, Americans consumed more than 4.7 billion pounds of fish last year. “But an ABC News investigation reveals consumers don’t often get what they pay for,” said the report. (Note that the fish part starts at 3:42 in the above video.) The program went on to explain that…
Updated August 28, 2012 at 11 am The National Park Service reported this week that adult Chinook (king) salmon have been seen in the Elwha River in Olympic National Park, less than five months after removal began on the Elwha Dam. According to the Park Service, the fish are the first of their kind…
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Justin O’Neill produces NG’s weekly radio program, National Geographic Weekend, with host Boyd Matson. Hear it on on SiriusXM satellite radio, subscribe to the iTunes podcast, or get the show streamed to your smartphone with the Stitcher Radio app. On this week’s edition of National Geographic Weekend, NG fellow Barton Seaver tells host Boyd Matson about a recent trip…
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Twenty years ago, a single sockeye salmon traveled 900 miles up the Columbia and Snake Rivers. It was an epic journey; travelling against the current the fish climbed more than 6,500 feet in elevation and up the “fish ladders” of eight dams. Bears, eagles, bobcats and other predators tried to grab this fish along the…
Strongholds in the Pacific Rim; Keep Salmon Wild
Posted by International League of Conservation Photographers on November 29, 2011 Wild Salmon Center 08/16/11 from iLCP on Vimeo.
In 1892, Livingston Stone, a Minister and avid fisherman called upon the US government to create a salmon park, saying, “Let us now, at the eleventh hour, take pity on our long persecuted salmon and do him the poor and tardy justice of giving him, in our broad land that he has done so much for, one place where he can come and go unmolested and where he can rest in safety.”
Bristol Bay
Posted by International League of Conservation Photographers on October 18, 2011 
Bristol Bay is America’s last, clean seafood resource. Now that’s a funny place to put a mine. An eye-witness account of the unique beauty and economic value of the region by Photographer Robert Glenn Ketchum.
Posted by Salmon in all their varieties are a great resource for humanity. But for the Peoples of the North Pacific the iconic fish also represent a critical heritage that goes back thousands of years. Plagued by overfishing, industrial pollution, and contamination of rivers, salmon are in trouble across their ancient habitat.
The Fraser River – The Study of a Watershed
Posted by International League of Conservation Photographers on July 15, 2011 
In the same way a doctor can monitor a patient’s health by analyzing their blood chemistry, scientists can assess the “health” of a river watershed by studying the chemical composition and other properties of the water. Scientists from the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole Research Center, and their international colleagues founded the Global Rivers…
Salmon in the Trees: Life in Alaska’s Tongass Rain Forest
Posted by International League of Conservation Photographers on May 19, 2011 
One of the rarest ecosystems on Earth, the Tongass rain forest fringes the coastal panhandle of Alaska and covers thousands of islands in the Alexander Archipelago. It’s a place where humpback whales, orcas, and sea lions cruise the forested shorelines. Conservation photographer Amy Gulick spent two years paddling and trekking among the bears, misty islands, and salmon streams to document the intricate connections within the Tongass. Here she shares some of her thoughts and photos of this iconic wilderness.
Posted by National Geographic Fellow Barton Seaver, a Washington, D.C.-based chef, writer, and ocean advocate talks to Green Guide about genetically engineered salmon. By Rachel Kaufman Last month, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration announced that genetically engineered salmon is safe to eat, but has not yet officially approved the fish for sale. The final-approval process could…
Asian oil interests wanting access to western Canada’s tar sands, the second largest known oil reserves in the world, have prompted a focus on the Great Bear Rainforest by the world’s most celebrated and talented nature photographers, the International League of Conservation Photographers (iLCP) said this week. Home to white spirit bears, ancient forests, and…
From Whitewater to World-Class Fly-Fishing
Posted by Ford Cochran on July 22, 2010 Bryan Smith is leading a team of whitewater kayakers on a month-long expedition to Russia’s remote Kamchatka Peninsula. Funded by National Geographic’s Expeditions Council, the team will be attempting several source-to-sea first descents of previously un-run rivers, plus working with a diverse team of scientists, NGOs, and locals to help show how important Kamchatka’s river…
Kamchatka Project: Defining Success
Posted by Ford Cochran on July 7, 2010 Bryan Smith is leading a team of whitewater kayakers on a month-long expedition to Russia’s remote Kamchatka Peninsula. Funded by National Geographic’s Expeditions Council, the team will be attempting several source-to-sea first descents of previously un-run rivers, plus working with a diverse team of scientists, NGOs, and locals to help show how important Kamchatka’s river…
Source to Sea: Wild Kamchatka Rivers
Posted by Ford Cochran on June 29, 2010 Bryan Smith is leading a team of whitewater kayakers on a month-long expedition to Russia’s remote Kamchatka Peninsula. Funded by National Geographic’s Expeditions Council, the team will be attempting several source-to-sea first descents of previously un-run rivers, plus working with a diverse team of scientists, NGOs, and locals to help show how important Kamchatka’s river…
Action Atlas: Save Snake River Salmon
Posted by Ford Cochran on May 24, 2010 By Allen Carroll For thousands of years, a migration of majestic proportions has played out annually in the wild rivers of the northwestern United States. Sockeye and steelhead salmon return to the rivers in which they were born, swimming upstream for hundreds of miles against ferocious currents in order to spawn and die. To reach…
Photo Joel Sartore/NGS In a remote neck of Canada’s backwoods the deer catch a break during the fall. That’s when the wolves go fishing. “Although most people imagine wolves chasing deer and other hoofed animals, new research suggests that, when they can, wolves actually prefer fishing to hunting,” researchers from the University of Victoria and…
