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Salmon & Steelhead

Study: Decline of salmon also impacts salmon genetics

January 12, 2018, 10:53am Northwest

As Chinook salmon populations declined across the Pacific Northwest, scientists suspected the fish lost a great deal of genetic diversity, too. Read story

$10.7 million project to help fish travel up Oregon’s Crooked River

January 8, 2018, 7:31pm Northwest

A project designed to help fish populations travel more effectively is coming to an Oregon river. Read story

Terry Otto, (right), and host Buzz Ramsey with a Columbia River spring chinook. 166,700 “springer” adults are expected to pass over Bonneville Dam.

Spring salmon forecast not all gloomy

Terry Otto, (right), and host Buzz Ramsey with a Columbia River spring chinook. 166,700 “springer” adults are expected to pass over Bonneville Dam.

December 14, 2017, 11:51am Outdoors

Oregon and Washington have released the first salmon projections for the Columbia River and its tributaries for 2018. Read story

FILE - In this Oct. 17, 2013, file photo, a wild Idaho Salmon River steelhead is netted and quickly released in the Salmon River north of Riggins, Idaho. Authorities have released recovery plans for federally protected Snake River chinook salmon and steelhead with the goal of making sure each species is self-sustaining in the wild.

Recovery plans for Snake River salmon, steelhead released

FILE - In this Oct. 17, 2013, file photo, a wild Idaho Salmon River steelhead is netted and quickly released in the Salmon River north of Riggins, Idaho. Authorities have released recovery plans for federally protected Snake River chinook salmon and steelhead with the goal of making sure each species is self-sustaining in the wild.

December 12, 2017, 12:20pm Northwest

Authorities have released recovery plans for federally protected Snake River chinook salmon and steelhead with the goal of making sure each species is self-sustaining in the wild. Read story

The Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife collected a juvenile steelhead.

Urban streams yielding wild steelhead

The Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife collected a juvenile steelhead.

November 27, 2017, 8:30pm Northwest

A rivulet gurgling into Larson Creek along East Barnett Road is so overlooked that it doesn’t appear on most maps and doesn’t even have a name. Read story

Fisheries in Washington have been devastated for the last three years not only by natural disaster but persistent algal blooms and a pocket of warm water that is killing fish and birds.

Herrera Beutler seeks aid for fishery disasters

Fisheries in Washington have been devastated for the last three years not only by natural disaster but persistent algal blooms and a pocket of warm water that is killing fish and birds.

November 16, 2017, 6:04pm Clark County News

Members of Congress from the state of Washington are asking the Office of Management and Budget to provide additional funding for declared fishery disasters statewide. Read story

Biologist Eric Brunsdon holds an aquaculture escapee Oct. 5 from the Magaguadavic River. The New Brunswick-based Atlantic Salmon Federation says no wild Atlantic salmon have returned to the key river in New Brunswick, prompting concern for the fish’s population health in the U.S. and eastern Canada. The group says 2017 is the first year since they started monitoring in 1992 that no wild salmon have returned to the river to spawn.

No salmon return to Canada river, bringing New England fears

Biologist Eric Brunsdon holds an aquaculture escapee Oct. 5 from the Magaguadavic River. The New Brunswick-based Atlantic Salmon Federation says no wild Atlantic salmon have returned to the key river in New Brunswick, prompting concern for the fish’s population health in the U.S. and eastern Canada. The group says 2017 is the first year since they started monitoring in 1992 that no wild salmon have returned to the river to spawn.

October 29, 2017, 2:38pm Business

A conservation group’s discovery that no wild Atlantic salmon have returned to a key river in New Brunswick is prompting concern for the fish’s population health in the U.S. and eastern Canada. Read story

Fish-farming company offered money for Lummi Nation’s silence about net pens, letters show

October 12, 2017, 10:28am Northwest

Cooke Aquaculture offered to pay a premium price for Atlantic salmon caught by the Lummi Nation after a major spill from the company’s Cypress Island fish farm if the tribe would not advocate getting rid of net pen aquaculture. Read story

Snake River sockeye salmon that returned from the Pacific Ocean to Idaho over the summer swim in a holding tank Tuesday at the Eagle Fish Hatchery in southwestern Idaho. The number of the endangered fish that made it back this year is the second worst in the last decade but there are enough hatchery-raised fish to make up for the bad return.

Idaho sockeye salmon run falters on poor return

Snake River sockeye salmon that returned from the Pacific Ocean to Idaho over the summer swim in a holding tank Tuesday at the Eagle Fish Hatchery in southwestern Idaho. The number of the endangered fish that made it back this year is the second worst in the last decade but there are enough hatchery-raised fish to make up for the bad return.

September 28, 2017, 6:02am Northwest

The number of imperiled Snake River sockeye salmon that made it back to central Idaho this year is the second worst in the last decade, officials said, but enough hatchery-raised fish exist to keep a state and federal recovery program going. Read story

Hatchery seeks better Rogue River salmon returns

September 15, 2017, 11:39am Northwest

Dave Pease always gets a bit nervous when he sends a few hundred thousand of his charges to freedom in a not-so-ceremonious way. Read story