Sockeye retention is now closed on the Columbia River downstream of the Highway 395 bridge at Pasco. The change, which went into effect Friday, happened because the allocation of sockeye for ...

First Nations urge federal and BC governments to commit to a long-term funding agreement by January 2026 after two fish ...

Smashing records, sockeye salmon are booming up the Columbia River, in a run expected to top 700,000 fish before it’s over. But a punishing heat wave has made river temperatures so hot many may never ...

Earlier this summer, the record return of sockeye salmon on the Columbia River looked to be doomed by water too warm to pass. But the run got a well-timed break from the heat. The Fish Passage Center ...

BOISE, Idaho (AP) — More than a quarter million sockeye salmon returning from the ocean to spawn are either dead or dying in the Columbia River and its tributaries due to warming water temperatures.

SEATTLE — Earlier this summer, the record return of sockeye salmon on the Columbia River looked to be doomed by water too warm to pass. But the run got a well-timed break from the heat. The Fish ...

Remember the story about Lonesome Larry, the one and only sockeye salmon that returned to Redfish Lake in Idaho back in 1992? It was a bleak picture of what the sockeye salmon run in the Northwest had ...

Summer chinook salmon fishing closed Saturday on a portion of the upper Columbia River. The Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife announced this week that the harvest allocation for chinook ...

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