While some guides and anglers were not surprised by a quick sturgeon fishery closure last week, they are not happy about how ...

Sullivan said the department is forecasting a return of 7,800 wild Snake River spring chinook, which are listed as a ...

Oregon salmon populations had some significant wins in 2024, including a record number of sockeye salmon passing through the ...

Everything about the Bonneville Dam is big. The dams themselves — there are actually three, stretching between islands to cut ...

Officials are still not close to reaching their goal of returning at least 5 million salmon and steelhead to the Columbia ...

Federally protected Steller sea lions ate more salmon on average than in years past at Bonneville Dam in the Columbia River, biologists in Oregon say. A second sea lion captured by wildlife ...

Just as adult returns to the basin have risen, so too has the number of fish bound for areas upstream of Bonneville Dam – another council goal. For decades, the council that includes ...

“Increased salmon and steelhead abundance in the Columbia River Basin — especially above Bonneville Dam — over the past 40 years marks important progress,” Council Member Louie ...