Adult fall-run Chinook salmon congregate near the Nimbus Hatchery Fish Ladder on the American River in Sacramento County in this October 2012 file photo. (Photo by Carl Costas/California Department of ...

Farmers can estimate the size of a harvest months in advance by counting the blossoms on their trees. Similarly, salmon fishers can cast an eye into the future by counting spawning fish in a river.

HAINES, Alaska – In the middle of the fast-flowing Chilkoot River, an Alaska state employee sits on a small perch over a narrow, fence-like structure and stares down into the rush of water. Eagles ...

This month, the Pacific Fishery Management Council released a review of the West Coast’s salmon fisheries in 2024. Salmon groups say the reported fish counts in the Klamath basin are low but not ...

A river has recorded a "catastrophic" salmon count, hitting a record low for a second successive year, a charity has said. Since 2002, the Game & Wildlife Conservation Trust (GWCT) has spent about ...

Oregon and Washington will reopen spring chinook salmon fishing Friday on the Columbia River below Bonneville Dam. More salmon than expected in counts at the dam allowed approval Wednesday of a two ...

California’s embattled salmon populations continue to struggle. According to figures released on February 26 by the California Department of Fish & Wildlife (CDFW) at an Anadromous Fishes Conservation ...

CLEMENTS − A record high number of over 23,000 fall-run Chinook salmon have returned to the Mokelumne River, a tributary of the San Joaquin River, while the second lowest number of Sacramento River ...

A measure years in the making will establish a cap for Alaska-bound chum salmon accidentally intercepted in trawl nets, ...

A federal judge’s order to increase the amount of spill over Columbia and Snake river dams won’t have much effect on fish ...

The low count of returning adult salmon, made by the federally operated Coleman National Fish Hatchery, is preliminary, with several weeks left in the natural spawning period for the Sacramento Valley ...