Fishery managers have announced significant restrictions on salmon fishing in the Klickitat River in response to a concerning ...

Chinook salmon were once abundant in the North Yuba River in California’s Sierra Nevada. But since 1941, they’ve been kept out of the chilly, clear waters by the Englebright Dam. Now, for the first ...

After clearing the nests of silt, they injected 300,000 spring-run Chinook salmon eggs up to 1.5 feet deep—an action designed to mimic the spawning behaviors of real adult salmon. On February 11 ...

“The Shasta River has historically been the most important Chinook salmon spawning stream in the upper Klamath River, supporting a spawning escapement of 27,600 adults as recently as 2012 and ...

California’s embattled salmon populations continue to struggle. According to figures released on February 26 by the ...

Once they reach reproductive age, adult salmon return upstream to spawn. According to the California Department of Fish and Wildlife, the population of Chinook salmon migrating in the fall in the ...

Several months after the start of a pilot program aiming to restore salmon runs in California’s Sierra County, Chinook salmon can be found in the North Yuba River “for the first time in close ...

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 ...

Spring-run Chinook salmon returned to the cool waters of the North Yuba River first as eggs, fertilized at Feather River Fish Hatchery in Oroville and embedded in October in the river’s gravel, ...

“Spring-run Chinook salmon badly need protections, but instead the agency has taken the lazy river approach and drifted past its own deadlines.” Chinook salmon are the largest of the Pacific ...

“But early returning salmon are in trouble all along the West Coast, and it’s clear they require protection under the Endangered Species Act to stop their slide toward extinction.” Washington coast ...