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 ...

Sockeye salmon are returning to the Columbia River at numbers far higher than predicted by the Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife, bringing expanded fishing opportunities this summer.

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 ...

Jul. 5—OLYMPIA — Sockeye fishing will open from the Astoria-Megler Bridge on the lower river to the Highway 395 Bridge at Pasco, and daily limits increase from there to Chief Joseph Dam near ...

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 ...

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.

The folks who oversee the fish counting procedures at the dams on the lower Columbia River have been quite busy as of late. Not only is this prime time for the almost always large run of shad swimming ...

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 ...

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

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