Every year, the Department of Natural Resources stocks fish in Michigan waters to provide fishing opportunities and maintain healthy ecosystems. Where do these stocked fish come from? It all starts ...

KEWAUNEE COUNTY (WLUK) -- The run is on for salmon in some waterways leading into Lake Michigan. Coho spawning is underway, and scientists with the Department of Natural Resources are giving the fish ...

OUT SOMEBODY’S EGG TAKING IS UNDERWAY AT THE NIMBUS FISH HATCHERY IN SACRAMENTO COUNTY. WORKERS SAY THEY STARTED THE PROCESS THIS MORNING. EGG TAKING IS SCHEDULED FOR MONDAYS AND THURSDAYS FOR THE ...

The Michigan Department of Natural Resources recently collected nearly 6.5 million wild coho salmon eggs in less than three weeks. The coho salmon eggs were collected from Oct. 15 to Nov. 1 at the ...

A giant female Chinook salmon flips on her side in the shallow water and wriggles wildly, using her tail to carve out a nest in the riverbed as her body glistens in the sunlight. In another moment, ...

For just a few weeks in October, the fish technicians at the Platte River Fish Hatchery in Benzie County do egg takes on over 600 coho salmon males and females a day to eventually spawn new coho ...

Having survived a year in the ocean and a rain-flooded Ship Creek upon their return to Anchorage in late summer, hundreds of coho salmon made their way back to the place where their life began. On ...