Biden administration, tribes talk salmon, steelhead recovery
The Biden administration reiterated its determination to change course on the decades-long, $17 billion effort to recover wild salmon in the Snake and Columbia rivers …
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State seeks input on steelhead management in Columbia Basin
Returns of summer steelhead to areas above Bonneville Dam hit a record low in 2021, closing the Deschutes River to steelhead fishing for the first …
2022 Salmon and Steelhead Seasons – Upper Columbia and Snake Rivers
Fisheries managers review the 2022 forecasts and upcoming seasons for Salmon and Steelhead in the Upper Columbia and Snake Rivers.
PNW could become ‘Shad Nation’ not ‘Salmon Nation’
The Northwest Power and Conservation Council says that non-native shad are now the predominant ocean-migrating fish of the Columbia River Basin, with its numbers dwarfing those …
Infrastructure bill would let Bonneville Power borrow $10 billion
Environmental groups say the $1 trillion infrastructure bill that will allow the cash-strapped Bonneville Power Administration to borrow an extra $10 billion will perpetuate a …
Federal regulators to limit hot water in Snake, Columbia rivers
Starting next spring federal regulators starting will require dam operators to limit hot water pollution caused by the four Lower Snake River dams. The EPA’s …
What Path Are We Going to Take?
Rich Simms co-founder and WSC Board Member on the dismal state of affairs of steelhead returns in the Columbia system. In the meantime, thinking …
Record-low steelhead returns on Columbia River prompt call for fishing shutdown
Situation critical on the Columbia. The number of steelhead returning from the Pacific Ocean to the river this year is the lowest ever recorded. As …
Salmon nearly boiled alive in Pacific north-west heatwave
Salmon in the Columbia River were exposed to unlivable water temperatures that caused them to break out in angry red lesions and white fungus …
This is shaping up to be a dire summer for fish and trees
Temperatures in the Columbia and Snake rivers are already within two degrees of the slaughter zone of 2015 when half the sockeye salmon run was …