Spawning salmon have returned to Whatcom County creeks. Adult chum salmon are back in droves this fall, following the trend of returning in mid-November to lay their eggs before dying, decomposing ...
Many of the Puget Sound region’s rivers and creeks recently have rippled with thick runs of salmon. Fall chum are returning to spawn in their highest numbers in at least a decade, to the delight ...
Chum salmon, a migratory species widely consumed ... the Bering Sea and the Gulf of Alaska before returning to spawn in Japanese rivers after three to five years. In recent years, only 20 million ...
the splashing of chum salmon as they push upstream to spawn. The salmon in the river are looking haggard by mid-November, their skin patchy and worn as they near the end of their lives.
Chum salmon actually eat some copepods ... when an average of fewer than 400 kokanee returned to these creeks to spawn. About a third of those fish are spawning in Ebright Creek.
Salmon docent and park steward John Mikesell ... near the entrance to Kitsap Golf & Country Club, as spawning chum have been crowding the creek in their quest to plant eggs before they die.