GATES, Ore. (CN) — If you see dead fish in the rivers of Oregon’s Willamette Valley, don’t panic. Throughout September, the Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife is intentionally throwing dead ...

Sport salmon fishing on the Columbia River has been extended again, from Oct. 1 to 13, following newly revised run forecasts echoing previous improvements in the upriver chinook salmon run. Sport ...

Before dams were built on the Columbia and Snake rivers, the sockeye run is estimated to have been 3 million a year. The count at Bonneville dwindled to 9,500 in 1945 and 8,774 in 1995.

Adult fall Chinook salmon in the Priest Rapids Hatchery. The fall-run ocean Chinook fishing season could be closed for much of Oregon through Sept. 1.

According to numbers from Portland General Electric, the number of adult early run coho salmon returning to the Upper Clackamas from the ocean just hit 9,000 fish, the largest seen at North Fork ...

The mainstem Columbia River summer salmon and steelhead fishery is scheduled to start on June 16. For full fishery details and regulations, see the emergency rule change at WDFW’s website .

The fishing season was also cut short in 2016 due to millions of juvenile salmon dying from warm Sacramento River temperatures. As for upcoming seasons between May 16, 2023, through May 15, 2024, Fish ...

PORTLAND, Ore. — Dangerously low levels of fall run Chinook salmon in two California rivers have forced wildlife officials to shut down fishing off much of the West Coast.

While Oregon’s salmon runs are so depleted by drought that the governor is seeking a federal bailout for fishermen, there is a silver lining along the Upper Clackamas River.. A record number of ...

PORTLAND, Ore.— The National Marine Fisheries Service today announced it will consider Endangered Species Act protections for spring-run chinook salmon on the Oregon coast. Today’s positive finding ...

Oregon Coast’s Chinook salmon among populations under review for endangered-species listing By Roman Battaglia ( Jefferson Public Radio ) Jan. 13, 2023 1 p.m. Updated: Jan. 14, 2023 12:07 a.m.

For generations, so much of Oregon’s identity has centered on our wealth of salmon and steelhead and the healthy rivers that sustain them. Fish and rivers are the lifeblood of communities ...