Chinook salmon migrate up the Columbia River in Oregon. (Dave Alan/Getty Images) Editor’s note: This is the second installment of a four-part series on salmon that will run in the Idaho Capital Sun on ...

The Columbia River Basin once sustained 10 to 16 million salmon and steelhead annually. Today, over a third of those ...

Salem nature photographer and content creator Brian Stone was salmon fishing alone Sept. 17 near Newport when he met one of the ocean’s strangest animals: an ocean sunfish. With the boat’s engine ...

Salmon are gradually repopulating sections of the Klamath River blocked to the ocean-going fish for a century.

It would be the seventh disaster declaration since 2016 for the state’s coastal salmon fisheries, which have been hit by warming waters and drought from climate change. FILE - This August 2017 photo ...

On a recent morning in March, while dew was still on the road, there occurred the salmon smolt mishap of northeast Oregon. The Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife said on Tuesday that one of its ...

This week, the Pacific Fishery Management Council adopted recommendations for ocean salmon fishing along the West Coast; for an unprecedented third year in a row, the council has recommended closing ...

For Snake River Chinook salmon and steelhead, the threshold is fewer than 50 adult fish in a population returning from the ocean for four consecutive years. Below that floor, the population’s ...