Washington announces record sockeye salmon returns to Baker River system

A record number of sockeye have returned to Skagit Bay and the Skagit river on their annual spawning migration, according to ...
The Idaho Press-Tribune

Sockeye season at Baker Lake opening one week early

The Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife announced it will be opening sockeye fishing season at Baker Lake one week early this year. Due to the unprecedented number of returning sockeye salmon ...
Seattle Daily Journal of Commerce

Record return of sockeye salmon to Skagit-Baker watershed

Sockeye populations had declined to just 99 returning fish in the mid-1980s, bringing the species to near extinction in the waters near Mount Baker.
Skagit Valley Herald

Baker Lake sockeye salmon limits increased

SEDRO-WOOLLEY — The state Department of Fish and Wildlife has increased the sockeye salmon limit on Baker Lake to five, with a minimum size of 18 inches. The limit was previously three. Vince ...
The Idaho Press-Tribune

Baker Lake sockeye returns lower than expected

BAKER LAKE — The number of sockeye salmon swimming up the Skagit River toward Baker Lake is lower than expected, and lower than at least the past five years. The unexpected low returns became clear in ...