Fishery managers from Washington and Oregon approved this year's Columbia River recreational spring Chinook salmon fishing season during a joint state hearing Thursday, a news release from ...

The Oregon commercial fishing industry’s economic impacts were an all-time high in Year 2025, according to a Corvallis-based economic research group, though tough times often are never far away.

The Washington Department of Fish & Wildlife announced the return of Columbia River spring Chinook Salmon fishing seasons.

A day after the first official legal Willamette River spring chinook salmon of 2026 was landed, Oregon and Washington managers approved an early spring season for the lower Columbia River, two days ...

WDFW and ODFW Director representatives today approved the Lower Columbia, Columbia Gorge and SAFE spring Chinook fisheries as ...

Overheard: For the first time in several years, the upcoming March 1 fishing opener in the Quincy Wildlife Refuge will have all open-water fishing opportunities. Mike Schmuck with the Washington ...

Smelt turned up after all for Wednesday's opener on the lower Cowlitz, a welcome surprise for dippers as well as state ...

Columbia River salmon recovery programs fared better in the 2026 federal budget than tribes, advocates, bureaucrats and ...

Only 0.1% of wild salmon eggs survive the lifecycle through alevin, fry, parr, smolt and kelts, and their 5,000-mile swim downstream, across the Atlantic, and back again to spawn where they were born ...

The 2026 federal budget provides some hope for salmon recovery in the Columbia River Basin, but mixed signals and conflicting policies continue to sow doubt about the future of the river and its tribu ...

Last week, the Northwest Power and Conservation Council met in Spokane to take public comment on its draft Columbia River ...