ELK CITY — The Nez Perce tribe is taking advantage of overproduction at the Clearwater Hatchery to seed some local streams with spring chinook redds — spawning beds or nests. Members of the tribe’s ...

Overall, Chinook redd counts are down. This week, 45 were tallied in the Newaukum. That’s compared with last year’s 56, and redd counts topping 100 in 2019 and 2020. The past four years, rains have ...

ELK CITY, Idaho — The Nez Perce tribe is taking advantage of overproduction at the Clearwater Hatchery to seed some local streams with spring chinook redds — spawning beds or nests. Members of the ...

SALMON, Idaho (KIFI) - The Salmon-Challis National Forest has implemented an emergency road closure (#04-13-22-510) to protect a Chinook salmon redd where the road crosses Camas Creek. The Chinook ...

The intense rain storms this year acted as a double-edged sword for Marin County’s endangered salmon runs and the biologists who monitor them. While providing ample water in local creeks and streams ...

Idaho Fish and Game personnel report successful Chinook spawning this year on the Lemhi River. Fisheries Biologist Megan Heller said during redd counts on the Lemhi River this year “nearly every turn ...

In the fall of 1980, a spawning escapement study was initiated on the West Branch Mill Creek, a major fall chinook salmon (Oncorhynchus tshawytscha) tributary of the Smith River. The purpose of the ...

As fisheries biologists, we are used to walking along a streambed looking down to see what fish we can find. However, every September in the Middle Fork of the Salmon River tributaries, we shake ...

On a winter’s morning, three biologists wade into the American River, leaving their motorboat docked along an embankment. Their directive is straightforward: Keep your eyes peeled for steelhead redds.