
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 …
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 …
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 …
Fisheries managers review the 2022 forecasts and upcoming seasons for Salmon and Steelhead in the Upper Columbia and Snake Rivers.
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 in the Columbia River were exposed to unlivable water temperatures that caused them to break out in angry red lesions and white fungus …
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 …