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 ...

Mindi Eleazer, the wife of fishing guide Matt Eleazer, with a fine spring Chinook salmon she took from the Columbia River. (Photo courtesy of East Fork Outfitters) Anglers in Washington can expect ...

The production of this article and accompanying photographs are the result of a collaboration between environment and science news platform, Mongabay, and McClatchy News. “Some mornings, the sun’s ...

PORTLAND, Ore. (KOIN) – A new report released by the Governor’s Salmon Recovery Office in Washington, found some salmon populations have seen growth, while others are struggling and face extinction.

Federal officials have approved a plan that calls for cutting nontribal salmon fishing along the West Coast when the fish are needed to help the Northwest’s endangered killer whales. National Oceanic ...

Aug. 10—Anglers fishing a portion of the Snake River in southeastern Washington will be allowed to keep some Chinook salmon this fall. The Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife announced in a ...

The fishing of chinook or king salmon is back on the desk of the National Marine Fisheries Service, part of the whipsaw rulings this past summer that saw the king salmon season shut down — and then ...

If you want to find a turning point in Washington state’s modern history of environmental protection and advocacy, just go back a few decades to the late 1980s and early 1990s. This was a time period ...

The Nisqually River winds through the Billy Frank Jr. Nisqually National Wildlife Refuge. Ryan N. Comfort Photo by Ryan N. Comfort If you want to find a turning point in Washington state’s modern ...