Typically, now is the time when creeks along the Sacramento River are filled with young spring-run Chinook salmon preparing to make their journey downstream to the Pacific Ocean, where they will ...

The California Department of Fish and Wildlife (CDFW) and National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) Fisheries biologists are pursuing urgent measures in northern California this fall to ...

The Chinook salmon could be getting federal protection after the Center for Biological Diversity (CBD) and Pacific Rivers filed a petition to get the Washington Coast spring-run salmon to be ...

A very low return of spring Chinook salmon in the South Umpqua River has conservationists alarmed. Several groups now want the fish given federal protection. Fall Chinook salmon swim upstream near the ...

Spring Chinook salmon fishing is reopening on the lower Columbia River for two weekends in May and four days in June, it was announced Wednesday, May 15, 2024, by Washington and Oregon fishery ...

Once again this season, the Washington Department of Fish & Wildlife has added more days for anglers to try and reel in a spring Chinook salmon on the Columbia River.

Oregon and Washington fish managers ensured a memorable and uniformly long Memorial Day weekend by extending the spring chinook salmon season on the Columbia River. Fishing will reopen from Friday ...

PORTLAND, Ore.— The Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife’s recent count of spring-run Chinook salmon returning to the South Umpqua River showed just 17 wild adult fish detected during snorkel ...

PORTLAND, Ore.— The Center for Biological Diversity and Pacific Rivers filed a petition today to protect Washington coast spring-run Chinook salmon under the federal Endangered Species Act. The ...

Washington has not set a spring chinook season on the Snake River. Fisheries managers from the Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife held a meeting in Clarkston on Wednesday to discuss a possible ...

It’s been a busy week for salmon managers in Oregon and Washington and something of a perfect storm for their constituents.

California biologists collect young spring-run Chinook salmon in Deer Creek, a tributary of the Sacramento River, on Oct. 10, 2023. (Peter Tira, California Department of Fish and Wildlife) The ...