Late in the 19th century on the McCloud River below Mount Shasta, California's first hatchery began creating thousands of salmon embryos for an audacious plan to establish populations of California ...

In October 2024, scientists created dozens of man-made nests and deposited 300,000 Chinook salmon eggs. Now, those eggs are hatching. California Department of Fish and Wildlife Chinook salmon were ...

KLAMATH FALLS, Ore. — Video captured a Chinook salmon successfully summiting the fish ladder at an upper Klamath River dam this week, according to the Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife — the ...

BANKS, IDAHO, Idaho — Snowmelt from the Sawtooth and Salmon River mountains sends rushing currents through southern Idaho's Payette River, creating one of the world's premier whitewater rafting ...

Several months after the start of a pilot program aiming to restore salmon runs in California’s Sierra County, Chinook salmon can be found in the North Yuba River “for the first time in close to a ...

As global warming bears down on our Western rivers and watersheds, it threatens one of the great symbols of Western abundance: wild salmon. With each passing year, their numbers have dropped ...

The Columbia River basin consists of several different physiographic regions. There are alpine and subalpine environments in its mountainous regions (the Cascades, Rockies, and related subchains), an ...

With "largely encouraging" Chinook and coho forecasts, the West Coast ocean salmon fishing council has adopted options for 2026 seasons off Washington, Oregon and the rest of the coast, and here's ...