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 ...

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 ...

The Chinook salmon could be getting federal protection after the Center for Biological Diversity (CBD) and Pacific Rivers filed a petition to get the Washington Coast spring-run salmon to be ...

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 ...

BOISE, Idaho — The Idaho Department of Fish and Game forecasts a larger-than-average run of Chinook salmon this spring, and about a month from now, anglers may begin catching some of them. The Idaho ...

On Dec. 9, Washington and Oregon released the first spring Chinook projections for 2026, and the runs should be very similar to 2025. Some runs are down, but a few are expected to perform better than ...

Spring chinook salmon angling in the Columbia River will be open Friday, May 19, through Wednesday, May 24, with a chance of more fishing in late May or early June. Washington and Oregon officials ...

The 53-foot truck rolled down an embankment toward Lookingglass Creek. Photograph courtesy of the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. Some 102,000 spring Chinook salmon smolts destined for the Imnaha ...

Washington has not set a spring chinook season on the Snake River. Fisheries managers from the Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife held a meeting in Clarkston on Wednesday to discuss a possible ...

It is finally feeling like spring around here, and if you are a spring salmon lover, like I am, it is REALLY feeling like spring. Ever since I caught my first spring chinook salmon at the mouth of the ...

They swam for more than 350 miles against the current. Past dams that once stopped them. Through waters that hadn't seen ...

In October 2024, scientists created dozens of man-made nests and deposited 300,000 Chinook salmon eggs. Now, those eggs are hatching. California Department of Fish and Wildlife Chinook salmon were ...