A day after the first official legal Willamette River spring chinook salmon of 2026 was landed, Oregon and Washington ...

Fishery managers from Washington and Oregon approved this year's Columbia River recreational spring Chinook salmon fishing season during a joint state hearing Thursday, a news release from ...

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 ...

The always-anticipated and popular spring chinook fishing season on several rivers in the mid-Columbia open for fishing this Saturday. Unfortunately, with less than five salmon counted through the ...

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 ...

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 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 Center for Biological Diversity and Pacific Rivers filed a petition today to protect Washington coast spring-run Chinook salmon under the federal Endangered Species Act. The ...

A lone salmon hovered in a holding tank just below Cougar Dam, waiting to begin his road trip in the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers fish taxi waiting below. Just a single fish wasn't what Greg Taylor ...

Spring chinook salmon passage at Bonneville Dam is only at about 25 percent of the 10-year average for the date. (RICK BOWMER/Associated Press) The spring season for spring Chinook salmon and hatchery ...