Co-management of a Chinook salmon hatchery on the Coquille river in southwest Oregon has helped the fish population thrive ...

California has released 500,000 salmon into the Klamath River. As dams are removed, the fish will be some of the first to return to a free-flowing river.

Wild Fish Conservancy executive director Emma Helverson said 77 percent of spawning salmon were hatchery-reared in Cowlitz County’s Mill, Abernathy and Germany creeks, despite a limit of 50 percent.

Food How hatchery salmon has been recaptured to feed this Oregon coast community Updated: Dec. 17, 2024, 4:39 p.m. | Published: Dec. 17, 2024, 6:00 a.m.

A ban on king salmon fishing in effect in many Juneau-area waters until Aug. 31 was expected due to a 2020 landslide that severed the freshwater supply to a local hatchery and thus killed off most ...

ISSAQUAH, Wash. — The salmon are swimming upstream and that’s the sign of a homecoming the staff and volunteers at Issaquah’s Salmon Hatchery were waiting for. Issaquah is home to the most ...

In 2021, managers at the Elk River Hatchery released the first chinook salmon fry imprinted on those acids into the wild, along with others reared on minnow bile and other compounds.

But hatchery-raised salmon can take straying too far. Many hatchery fish are released in unfamiliar streams or in other conditions in which they don’t readily imprint.

The agency said hatchery-bred fish could be counted in some circumstances as part of the salmon stock in question. But overall, the policy will emphasize protection of wild-spawned salmon, the ...

The hatchery is the state’s largest and sole supplier of Chinook and coho salmon, steelhead and brown trout in Lake Ontario. It’s located at 2133 County Route 22, Altmar, Oswego County.

SEATTLE, May 28 -- The Bush administration announced here on Friday a plan to consider hatchery salmon, which are bred in concrete pens, when deciding whether wild stream-bred salmon deserve ...