Coho Urban Runoff Mortality Syndrome: WSU Research Team Discovers How Tire Chemical 6PPD Kills Coho, Step To Finding Alternative
August 19th, 2025
For years, scientists at Washington State University’s Puyallup Research & Extension Center have been working to untangle a mystery: Why do coho salmon in Puget Sound creeks seem to suffocate after rainstorms — rising to the surface, gaping, and swimming in circles before dying?
Study Looks At How Strategic Transactions Of Water Rights During Shortages Can Both Conserve Water, Restore Fish Habitat
July 18th, 2025
The study, published June 20 in Nature Sustainability, details a new system for leasing rights to water from the basin while reallocating some water to imperiled habitats.
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Egg-To-Fry Survival Of Chinook Salmon Studied In Several Columbia Basin Rivers, Provides Predictive Models For Researchers
March 15th, 2025
A recent study brings to light the dangers of a little-known life stage in which spring Chinook salmon in the Columbia River basin generally incur high mortality – incubation in the gravel.
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Study Finds 56 Percent Of Caspian Tern Colony On Washington State Island Killed By Avian Flu, Some Had Relocated From Columbia River Estuary
November 18th, 2024
An epidemiological study found that 56% of a large breeding colony of Caspian terns died from a 2023 outbreak of highly pathogenic avian influenza at Rat Island in Washington state.