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 ...

California's fifth largest wildfire is encroaching on some of the last strongholds for imperiled salmon, with potentially devastating consequences for a species already on the brink. If the Park Fire ...

More than 1,200 adult spring-run Chinook salmon meant to return to the San Joaquin River ended up in the Tuolumne River instead, prompting a five-part rescue operation. The fish were originally ...

Earlier this month, Fresno welcomed 448 members of the Salmonidae family to town. Which in this case is Latin for adult, spring-run Chinook salmon. The 448 adult salmon represent a milestone for the ...

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 ...

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 ...

PORTLAND, Ore. — The Center for Biological Diversity (CBD) and other conservation organizations filed a lawsuit against the National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS) on Tuesday for delaying decisions ...

Four national and local wildlife conservation nonprofits sued the National Marine Fisheries Service Tuesday for allegedly failing to make Endangered Species Act protection decisions when they were due ...

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

A Karuk Tribe fisheries crew maneuvers a net to capture juvenile Chinook salmon, coho salmon and steelhead trout in Wooley Creek, a tributary of the Salmon River, in Northern California in August.

PORTLAND, Ore. — The Center for Biological Diversity and allies sued the National Marine Fisheries Service today for delaying Endangered Species Act protection decisions for spring-run Chinook salmon ...