Chinook salmon on Idaho’s South Fork Salmon River
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Legal Victory for Southern Resident Orcas & Wild Chinook Recovery
A federal court in Seattle has issued a final ruling in Wild Fish Conservancy’s lawsuit against the National Marine Fisheries Service. The decision stops the …
‘A soul wound’
According to experts, this year marks the lowest run of chinook ever recorded in the Yukon River, down a catastrophic 95% from previous levels. Communities …
This Changes Some Things
A big win for wild Chinook salmon, Puget Sound orcas, and Wild Fish Conservancy. A federal judge has rejected the National Marine Fisheries Service’s “mitigation” …
In the world of ‘sustainably’ caught fish, things aren’t always what they seem
These fish need some friends. In this episode, we speak with Kurt Beardslee, executive director of the Wild Fish Conservancy in Duvall, WA. Pot of …
50% of Wild Snake River Spring Chinook Cross Alarming Threshold
The fat lady is warming up on the Snake. Nearly half of the wild spring chinook populations in the Snake River Basin have crossed …
Study Finds Chinook Salmon Are Returning To Rivers Younger Than Before
Two retired WDFW employees have released a new paper calling for non-tribal trolling fisheries to be shut down and other fisheries reduced to help Chinook …
Feds May Look at Spring-Run Chinook Salmon as Genetically Distinct
Wildlife conservationists have been long making the case that spring-run Chinook salmon are a genetically distinct species from the ones that make their runs in …
For the first time in 80 years, salmon spawning in the upper Columbia River
Thanks to 60 salmon that were released in 2019 above the Grand Coulee and Chief Joseph dams for the first time in more than a …
The Elwha dams are gone and chinook are surging back, but few reach the upper river
Adult chinook returns to the Elwha since dam removal is the highest since the late 1980s, with more than 7,600 estimated in the 2019 count. …