A salmon passed through the fish ladder of a key dam on the upper Klamath River on Sept. 24, in what wildlife officials hope is a sign of the iconic fish repopulating ever-greater stretches of the ...

Reports of spawning salmon running up the Salmon River from Lake Ontario have been pouring in for over a month now, but many anglers say they haven’t yet seen a major push of fish come through. Higher ...

Conservation groups and states ask court to lift litigation pause on salmon 2023 Resilient Columbia Basin Agreement paused lawsuits and promised funds Groups urge dam removal and investment in ...

WDFW reports 91,880 sockeye returned to Skagit and Baker River system in 2025. 1.5 million juvenile sockeye passed Baker Lake collectors in May 2025. PSE, Upper Skagit, Swinomish and WDFW expanded ...

One year after the final piece of concrete was removed from the last of four dams on the Klamath River in northern California, tribes and environmentalists say the river, the fish and other species ...

Warm water and late salmon runs delayed fall fishing along the Columbia River. Backtrolling Kwikfish lures and flat-lining Wee Warts proved consistently effective. Anglers share stories that preserve ...

A new study has found that restoration in the Skagit River delta has successfully affected its population of Chinook salmon. Puget Sound Chinook are federally listed as endangered. It’s a species that ...

Editor’s note: This is the first in an ongoing series by Sacramento Bee opinion writer Tom Philp examining the precipitous decline of California’s wild salmon and what can be done to head off ...

Through an innovative partnership among farmers, the Jamestown S'Klallam Tribe, and conservation groups, the stakeholders along the Olympic Peninsula's Dungeness River are demonstrating how ...

On a late September morning, leaves gently fell over the Chahalpam property, a 462-acre conservation site located along the North Santiam River. In this peaceful natural area, the quiet was broken ...

Deep in the Seymour River valley – many kilometres beyond where the public is allowed to tread – a brief struggle ensues. Reece Fowler dips his net into a trailer-mounted tank absolutely aboil with ...