Washington state officials are ordering a salmon fisherman to pay $646,259 in damages and penalties for spilling diesel fuel into Haro Strait as his commercial fishing boat sank off San Juan Island.

Salvage crews have successfully raised a 48-foot fishing boat that had sunk near the northwest tip of San Juan Island. The sinking on May 3 was not the F/V Chief Joseph’s first trouble at sea. The U.S ...

A fish pen containing 305,000 farmed Atlantic salmon collapsed over the weekend in the San Juan Islands, raising fears about the potential that native Pacific salmon will be negatively impacted. The ...