Advocates say the Federal government is keeping a fish supply behind dams during a major salmon shortage. The salmon need to be able to swim upstream to reproduce, but can’t naturally due to the dams.

The sight of an orca clinging to her dead calf for a heartwrenching reason turned out to be a way of coping with loss, just ...

She carried that first dead calf for 17 days. A female killer whale was observed last week carrying her dead calf through Puget Sound in what experts say is further evidence that marine mammals ...

Autumn runs of chum and coho salmon in much of Puget Sound were abundant in the fall of 2024. Hanson said salmon runs that orcas depend on, including Chinook salmon in Canada’s Fraser River ...

SEATTLE — The mother orca known as J35 ... The connection between the Puget Sound and these animals makes Tahlequah's grief resonate deeply with the local community. Researchers continue ...

This week, mother orca Tahlequah may have surpassed her 2018 tour of grief, during which she carried her dead calf for 17 ...

“The death of any calf in the [Southern Resident killer whale] population is a tremendous ... which encompasses Puget Sound, according to the U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.

The Washington state-based Centre for Whale Research said the endangered orca named Tahlequah, also known as J35, was spotted carrying her deceased calf in Puget Sound off Seattle on New Year’s Day.

The bittersweet New Year’s Day visit to central Puget Sound by J and K pods revealed both a new, apparently healthy calf had ...

This makes Washington state the first place in the world to successfully implement a ban on all new commercial net pens, and ...

This year’s Treaty Day Film Festival offers the first local chance to see “Resident Orca,” the documentary that follows the ...