Wayne Fitzpatrick has been fishing for most of his life but has recently begun to worry about the fate of the Atlantic salmon ...

Much of that success—and the reason for perhaps even more hope for the future—is due to the Atlantic Salmon Federation.. The ASF is based in New Brunswick, Canada. With just 7,500 members, it ...

Atlantic Salmon have been on the brink of extinction for more than two decades, but through conservation efforts researchers ...

After AquaBounty Technologies quietly retreated from its Indiana salmon farm last year, a Wisconsin aquaculture company is ...

Atlantic salmon, unlike their Pacific cousins, don't always die after spawning, either. So some adults will also make the downstream trek, too.

Farm-raised Atlantic salmon has come a long way. Here’s how to buy it responsibly, according to scientists and chefs.Key pointsFarmed salmon gets a bad rap, but when done right, it’s a sustainable and ...

Atlantic salmon, the native salmon that used to inhabit the northern Atlantic Ocean, rivers and seas, is a species now represented by an impostor: farmed salmon.

Atlantic salmon (Salmo salar) hatch in rivers in Europe, where they spend their first few years before heading out to sea. Once they reach maturity, they return to their home river to breed.

The biologists recognized them as salmon nests, or redds, which meant that Atlantic salmon had spawned in a tributary of the Connecticut River. There have been a handful of similar reports since the ...

Last weekend a net pen holding 305,000 Atlantic salmon broke apart near Washington’s Bellingham Bay. The situation has raised a few basic questions about Atlantic salmon and fish farming.

He also videotaped Atlantic salmon in Scatter Creek, in Rochester, Thurston County, in 2003, presumably escaped from a nearby Atlantic salmon grow pond.

Upper Skagit tribal fishermen caught an Atlantic salmon in the Skagit River, 8 months after the net-pen break at Cypress Island, which freed 300,000 Atlantics. Experts say it’s not a ...