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Oregon and Washington will reopen spring chinook salmon fishing Friday on the Columbia River below Bonneville Dam. More ...
Friday marks the reopening of the spring Chinook salmon fishing season on the lower Columbia River. Washington and Oregon announced the reopening for the mainstem Columbia River from Rocky ...
It's a beautiful sunny day on the water. Because it's so sunny, we're going to run silver-coloured American Smelts crankbaits ...
The lower Columbia will reopen this week on a 14-day opener! Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife reports people can fish ...
For the stretches of the Columbia River upstream of Bonneville Dam to approx. 200’ above the fish ladder exit upstream to Hwy ...
The dam’s current fish ladder limits which species can jump over the dam. The new fishway would function in place of a fish ...
The 3.5 million fish being released into the main stem of the Sacramento River are part of an additional 9.7 million salmon ...
To support salmon recovery, our research identifies how toxic flame retardants move through and build up in the Snohomish ...
MISSION — The Confederated Tribes of the Umatilla Indian Reservation held its annual First Fish Ceremony to celebrate the first spring chinook salmon of 2025. The event was Monday, April 21 ...
Fishery biologists are watching the numbers closely. The numbers of returning spring chinook salmon coming into the Columbia River are running less than 50 percent of the 10-year average.
Columbia River spring and summer salmon forecasts can be accessed at the WDFW forecast website. The 2025 forecast for upriver spring Chinook is 122,500 fish, which is more than the 116,332 that ...