The salmon swam in over the miles just to have sex and die. Before they can rot, the spawned-out chum have one last purpose to serve - dinner for our national bird. It's the time of year when American bald eagles return to the Skagit River in northwest Washington state to get their own taste of the region's most famous cuisine.

We began our quick analysis of President Bush’s loan modification plan yesterday by calling it a bailout. Today we hearing from all over that the plan is not a bailout. In fact, Felix Salmon has issued a public plea for everyone to stop calling it a bailout.

FTA: The Chemical Brothers' new single, The Salmon Dance, is released today. Below is the piece we published in our September issue in which we interviewed VFX supervisor Ben Cronin of Framestore CFC about the team effort involved in creating the video…

If we may paraphrase: Energy company PacifiCorp has asked a federal judge, "Pretty please, can you dismiss a lawsuit claiming our Klamath River dams are polluting the river and killing salmon?" and the judge has responded, "No, sirree, see you in court." The Klamath, which runs along the California-Oregon border, was once the third-biggest salmon p

Are you tired of the other kids at Summer Color Camp laughing at you because you thought chartreuse was a shade of pink? Still having nightmares about the time you called a Salmon colored dress Mauve? With our help you’ll never call Azure, Aquamarine again and will be name dropping colors like they’re hot potatoes.

Salmon is the common name for several species of fish of the family Salmonidae. Several other fish in the family are called trout. Salmon live in both the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans, as well as the Great Lakes and other land locked lakes.Typically, salmon are anadromous: they are born in fresh water, migrate to the ocean, then return to fresh water to reproduce. Folklore has it that the fish return to the exact spot where they were born to spawn; research indicates that at least 90% of the fish that spawn in a particular stream were born there. In Alaska, the crossing-over to other streams allows salmon to populate new streams, such as those that emerge as a glacier retreats. The precise method salmon use to navigate has not been entirely established, though their keen sense of smell is involved. In all species of Pacific salmon, the mature individuals die within a few days or weeks of spawning, a trait known as semelparity. However, even in those species of salmon that may survive to spawn more than once (iteroparity), post-spawning mortality is quite high (perhaps as high as 40 to 50%.) Those species average about two or, perhaps, three spawning events per individual.Salmon has long been at the heart of the culture and livelihood of coastal dwellers. Most peoples of the Northern Pacific shore had a ceremony to honor the first return of the year. For many centuries, people caught salmon as they swam upriver to spawn. A famous spearfishing site on the Columbia River at Celilo Falls was inundated after great dams were built on the river. The Ainu, of northern Japan, taught dogs how to catch salmon as they returned to their breeding grounds en masse. Now, salmon are caught in bays and near shore. Drift net fisheries have been banned on the high seas except off Northumberland on the east coast of England.Salmon population levels are of concern in the Atlantic and in some parts of the Pacific but in northern British Columbia and Alaska stocks are still abundant. The Skeena River alone has millions of wild salmon returning which support commercial fisheries, aboriginal food fisheries, sports fisheries and the area's diverse wildlife on the coast and around communities hundreds of miles inland in the watershed. The Columbia River salmon population is now less than 3% of what it was when Lewis and Clark arrived at the river.Both Atlantic and Pacific Salmon are important to recreational fishing around the world.In the southern hemisphere, there is a fish commonly called the Australian salmon but which is a salt water species and not related to the salmonidae. It is found along the southern coastline of Australia and Tasmania. Commonly caught with large beach nets, its use as a commercial fish has been declining over the last 20 years.