A low count of returning adult salmon is preliminary, with several weeks left in the natural spawning period for the fall-run ...

A Chinook salmon jumps out of the water on a California fish ladder. A record 7,000 Chinook salmon are expected to return to Whatcom Creek this fall, an encouraging sign for efforts to protect the ...

A common setup for many anglers during the fall chinook salmon season is to troll downstream with a flasher and a Superbait stuffed with scented tuna. ENTERPRISE — Starting Friday, Sept. 19, and ...

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 ...

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 ...

CHICO — Spring-run chinook salmon, native to Butte Creek, Deer Creek and Mill Creek, whose populations reported sharp declines in the 2023 season as a result of recent drought years, are being taken ...

Anglers have more time to go after hatchery steelhead on Salmon Creek. The Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife set the season beginning Sunday (March 16) through May 23. The WDFW said in a ...

NEWPORT, Ore (KTVZ). – Researchers who created “family trees” for nearly 10,000 fish found that first-generation, wild-born descendants of hatchery-origin Chinook salmon in an Oregon river show ...

Nearly 30,000 chinook salmon were wasted as bycatch in the Canadian trawl fishery targeting hake and walleye pollock, a new report from Canadian fisheries officials found. Bycatch, or unintended catch ...