Spring-run Chinook salmon are also a preferred and primary food for Southern Resident orcas, which are themselves listed as endangered, having a population of only 73 individuals. Diminishing salmon ...

The Park Fire is California’s fourth-largest wildfire, and has burned over 420,000 acres across Northern California in more than two weeks. The fire is now threatening some of the last refuges of ...

More than 1,200 adult spring-run Chinook salmon meant to return to the San Joaquin River ended up in the Tuolumne River instead, prompting a five-part rescue operation. The fish were originally ...

A Karuk Tribe fisheries crew maneuvers a net to capture juvenile Chinook salmon, coho salmon and steelhead trout in Wooley Creek, a tributary of the Salmon River, in Northern California in August.

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 ...

It is a joyous time of year for tens of thousands of salmon anglers in the Pacific Northwest. Oh, sure, it is Christmas and all that, but last week the prognosticators of such things put out their ...

Buoyed by a stronger spring chinook salmon run than expected, managers in Oregon and Washington met Tuesday afternoon and extended sport fishing well into June both below and above Bonneville Dam.

PORTLAND, Ore. — The Center for Biological Diversity and allies sued the National Marine Fisheries Service today for delaying Endangered Species Act protection decisions for spring-run Chinook salmon ...