The Chinook salmon (Oncorhynchus tshawytscha) is the largest salmon species in the U.S. This is why it is also known as the king salmon. Other names for this salmon include spring salmon ...

The mammals' return to the region represented a conservation success story, but their appetite for endangered fish is ...

Brian Klice of Cuba, N.Y. caught a Chinook salmon that weighed in at 24 pounds, 8 ounces to claim the Grand Prize.

One of the most important types of fish he reels in is king salmon -- the largest and most expensive species of salmon in the Pacific. But now, Fujioka is facing a new problem. The fish ...

Image King salmon caught in the Pelican sport fishing derby await weighing. The largest of the salmon species, kings once ranged up to 100 pounds. Now they are much smaller, and 30-pound fish ...

Slam’n Salm’n King Derby at Ship Creek is back. The king salmon that are caught originate from the William Jack Hernandez ...

Captain David Seefeldt and his crew aboard the “She Said No” boat landed the largest single fish, a king salmon weighing 25.7 pounds. As part of the Northeastern Wisconsin Great Lakes Sport ...

Chinook is also called "king" salmon because they're the largest of the Pacific salmon species. The recommendations now got to the National Marine Fisheries Service for approval by May 16.

The work has given salmon a passageway to key swaths of habitat just in time for the fall Chinook, or king salmon, spawning season ... The Klamath was once known as the third-largest salmon-producing ...