Sockeye fishing cut off to protect coho BC Local News By Jeff Nagel September 7, 2010 Most commercial fishing of this year's record run of Fraser River sockeye salmon has been halted to conserve m...

California salmon disaster continues World Fishing & Aquaculture September 6, 2010 US Commerce Secretary Gary Locke has extended the disaster for California salmon fishermen due to the low num...

Fraser River whopper sockeye salmon run even bigger The Seattle Times By Hal Bernton September 1, 2010 A forecast released Tuesday by the Pacific Salmon Commission predicts some 34 million fish wi...

Huge haul, high prices for Alaska salmon Capital City Weekly By Laine Welch September 1, 2010 Alaska's salmon catch has blown past pre-season predictions and there is still a lot of fishing left t...

Alaska salmon haul a surprise Anchorage Daily News By Laine Welch August 28, 2010 Alaska's salmon catch has blown past pre-season predictions and there is still a lot of fishing left to go. The ...

Ocean indicators point to lull in 2011 KPLU News By Tom Banse August 23, 2010 When it comes to salmon survival, the Pacific Ocean has often been compared to a black box. Biologists can track ever...

Salmon, steelhead booming upstream The Spokesman-Review August 22, 2010 The big 2010 spring chinook run up the Columbia River is history. The record number of sockeye are still making a splash a...

Yukon chum run is lagging APRN By Dan Bross August 19, 2010 The Yukon River fall chum salmon run is lagging way behind expectations. State fall chum manager Jeff Estensen says past the normal mid-...

Washington, Oregon test new fishing gear on Columbia OPB News By Anna King August 11, 2010 The fish and wildlife departments of Oregon and Washington are teaming up to study new fish nets on the l...

Huge chinook run expected to start reaching Columbia The Seattle Times By Mark Yuasa August 7, 2010 This month marks another big turning point for salmon fishing around the state, and many will be...

July steelhead catch just short of record The Columbia Basin Bulletin August 6, 2010 Based on the in-season projection through July 31, last month's steelhead catch in the lower Columbia River fel...

Fraser River sockeye salmon fishery opens CBC News August 5, 2010 The commercial sockeye salmon fishery on B.C.'s Fraser River is opening for the first time in four years. Commercial fishers hai...

Chinook fishing on Snake River closes next week Statesman Journal July 27, 2010 Fishing for spring-run Chinook salmon closes at midnight Aug. 4 on the Snake River. Biologists with the Oregon Dep...

Projects addressing bass predation, wild v. hatchery The Columbia Basin Bulletin July 16, 2010 The Northwest Power and Conservation Council on Wednesday recommended funding for three projects that...

Columbia River runs well above average OPB News By Geoff Norcross July 12, 2010 Biologists say the numbers of salmon and steelhead heading up the Columbia River are well above average. Officials...

Short season highlights fishery's woes The Press Democrat By Jeremy Hay July 10, 2010 Commercial fishermen plying North Coast waters for salmon this weekend are, with the rare exception, hauling i...

Fishermen primarily fish 'down the food web' The Columbia Basin Bulletin July 9, 2010 People who fish for a living pursue top profits, not necessarily top predators, according to the first-ever an...

Big salmon, steelhead runs amaze biologists The News Tribune By Kevin McCullen July 11, 2010 Numbers of salmon and steelhead returning up the Columbia River are well above the 10-year average agai...

Sockeye count easily surpasses 1947 record run The Columbia Basin Bulletin July 9, 2010 Sockeye salmon continue to zoom up and over the lower Columbia River's Bonneville Dam where they are now set...

Rockfish program signals shift in state fisheries policy Alaska Journal of Commerce By Andrew Jensen June 25, 2010 The Alaska delegation to the North Pacific Fisheries Management Council signaled ...

Scientists study ocean salmon migration Science Blog June 3, 2010 A major research effort aimed at learning more about where salmon from specific river systems migrate in the Pacific Ocean will re...

West Coast salmon fishing to be monitored Courthouse News By Travis Sanford May 10, 2010 There will be commercial salmon fishing off the west coast of the United States, but it will be strictly mo...

Tribal chinook fishing begins The Oregonian By Allen Thomas April 27, 2010 Tribal commercial fishing for spring chinook salmon began Tuesday in the Columbia River Gorge. The Columbia River Compa...

First fall-run chinook salmon fishing since '07 expected Sacramento Bee By Matt Weiser April 20, 2010 When salmon return from the ocean this fall for their age-old spawning drama, American River a...

The salmon puzzle The Times-Standard By John Driscoll April 19, 2010 There are dozens of pieces to a salmon season. For a salmon season to be good, however, those things must fit together like a j...

Expected chinook numbers will spawn high hopes Mail Tribune By Mark Freeman April 17, 2010 For the past four years, customers who asked Dick and Casey's Gourmet Seafood owner Julie Tomlinson for a...

Salmon fishing seasons set Seattle Times By Mark Yuasa April 15, 2010 The Pacific Fishery Management Council meetings ended Thursday in Portland, Ore., and the 2010-11 sport salmon fishing seasons...

On the brink of extinction News Review By Alastair Bland April 15, 2010 The recreational salmon season opened in the Pacific Ocean on April 3, but not all fishermen are thrilled about it. Some a...

Feds mulling the options for a North Coast fishing The Times-Standard By John Driscoll April 13, 2010 Fishermen are waiting anxiously to find out what this year's salmon season will look like, as ...

Pacific Fishery council moves to open Oregon Coast Oregon Live April 12, 2010 For the first time in two years, a multi-state council gave tentative approval today to open the Oregon Coast to comme...

Saving the salmon fishing industry Santa Cruz Sentinel By Zeke Grader April 11, 2010 For two years, sport and commercial fishermen along 1,000 miles of coastline in California and Oregon have been...

Fishermen try to save Chinook salmon in Delta The San Francisco Chronicle By Carolyn Jones April 2, 2010 Pummeled by two straight years of canceled fishing seasons, enraged salmon fishermen held a...

Fishermen weigh salmon options The World March 30, 2010 COOS BAY - Commercial and recreational fishermen are split on several options the Pacific Fishery Management Council has laid out for the up...

Recreational salmon fishing returns Saturday Santa Cruz Sentinel By Kurtis Alexander March 29, 2010 Tackle shop owner Todd Fraser has spent a long time preparing for the coming weekend. He's duste...

Columbia summer, fall chinook regulations The Columbian By Allen Thomas March 18, 2010 The keeping of only fin-clipped hatchery fish - long the norm for Columbia River spring chinook, coho and st...

2010 chinook salmon forecast optimistic FIS March 15, 2010 There will at least be limited ocean chinook salmon fishing this year, according to the Pacific Fishery Management Council (PFMC). This w...

More salmon coming back: good for fish and farms? Sierra To The Sea March 15, 2010 Who gets the blame for a declining salmon population off the California coast? A blog by fishery advocate Dick Po...

Early ocean salmon season canceled off Oregon Natural Resouce Report March 15, 2010 Oregon's recreational and commercial ocean salmon seasons scheduled to open from March 15 through April 30 have ...

Record steelhead return continues Columbia Basin Bulletin March 12, 2010 The record 2009 summer steelhead return to Idaho and northeast Oregon streams has continued unabated into a new year that a...

Fishermen likely to see limited salmon season The San Francisco Chronicle By Peter Fimrite March 12, 2010 Salmon fishermen can dust off their poles, sponge off their boats and get ready to hook so...

Salmon outlook little-changed The News Tribune By Jeffery P. Mayor March 3, 2010 South Sound anglers this year should see local salmon fishing seasons similar to 2009, with some exceptions. As f...

Salmon seasons might hold good news for anglers The Oregonian By Mike Wilson March 1, 2010 Fishery managers from the Pacific states will convene in the next few weeks to present options for offsho...

Huge fall chinook jack return... The Columbia Basin Bulletin February 26, 2010 Fishery managers are predicting that "upriver" fall chinook salmon returns to the Columbia River this year will be th...

Feds predict better year for California salmon Mercury News By Mike Taugher February 24, 2010 Despite a record-low number of salmon returning to California rivers in the fall, there is a good chan...

2010 salmon season predicted to come up short Capital City Weekly By Laine Welch February 24, 2010 Alaska's 2010 salmon season will produce 15 percent fewer fish, if predictions by state fishery m...

Salmon population collapses By Alex Breitler Record Staff Writer February 19, 2010 Fishing guide Tim Bermingham gave up on San Joaquin River salmon a long time ago. "I remember catching 22-pound...

Spring chinook seasons in Columbia River finalized Seattle Times By Mark Yuasa February 18, 2010 A potential record return of 559,900 spring chinook has allowed state Fish and Wildlife to provide ...

Large return of spring chinook expected in Idaho Idaho Statesman February 14, 2010 Fisheries managers in Idaho predict 180,000 spring chinook will swim past Lower Granite Dam about 35 miles west o...

Lowest Delta-rivers salmon run ever in 2009 The San Francisco Chronicle By Peter Fimrite February 13, 2010 The lowest number of chinook salmon in recorded history made their way up the Sacramento ...

States likely to reduce lower Columbia sturgeon harvest The Columbia Basin Bulletin February 12, 2010 It is expected that the states of Oregon and Washington will decide next week on a white sturg...

Coho returning to Central Washington streams Yakima Herald-Republic By Philip Ferolito February 11, 2010 Record coho returns have Yakama Nation biologists poised for the next step in recovery: get...

Environmentalists and fishing community can win Science Daily January 7, 2010 You can conserve fish and eat them too, according to a fisheries economist at UC Santa Barbara, along with a team of e...

Analysis under way for 2010 salmon season The Times-Standard By John Driscoll January 7, 2010 State biologists will be crunching numbers and counting fish over the next several weeks in a process ...

Salmon runs a bad sign for Oregon's fishing fleet The Oregonian By Matthew Preusch January 6, 2010 What remains of the Oregon coast's salmon fishing fleet is largely dependent on chinook salmon th...

2010 could be disappointing for salmon fishing KGO News January 4, 2010 The year 2010 is shaping up to be another disappointing year for commercial salmon fishing on the west coast. The 2009 Fa...

Autumn chinook run falls short The Sacramento Bee By Matt Weiser January 4, 2010 Salmon didn't make the big fall comeback in Central Valley rivers that anglers and nature lovers yearned for, raisi...

Next decade key for recreational fishery New York Post By Ken Moran January 1, 2010 This next decade will be extremely important for saltwater anglers and the industry should be heard in Washingto...

Migratory fish show big comeback on the Columbia The News Tribune By John Trumbo December 31, 2009 This year may be remembered for the big comeback of the Columbia River's migratory fish. Coho s...

Initiative to ban gillnets, tangle nets The Columbian By Allen Thomas December 30, 2009 The Coastal Conservation Association will attempt to place an initiative on the Oregon ballot in November to...

Group wants gill-net salmon fishing ban on ballot The Oregonian By Matthew Preusch December 28, 2009 A conservation group wants Oregonians to vote on whether to ban gill and tangle net fishing for...

Smith's chinook numbers are the highest in decades Curry Coastal Pilot By Kurt Madar December 26, 2009 The Smith River and its tributaries are seeing one of the largest runs of Chinook salmon in d...

More good news for Columbia River spring chinook The Seattle Times By Mark Yuasa December 22, 2009 We just can't stop saying enough about what to expect in the Columbia River this coming year for ...

Catch shares may not lead to healthier fisheries The Oregonian By Matthew Preusch December 21, 2009 A fisheries management tool embraced by the Obama administration may not increase the health of ...

Forecasts bright for 2010 salmon seasons The Seattle Times By Mark Yuasa December 19, 2009 More than a handful of the preliminary Columbia River salmon forecasts have already been released, and it...

West coast salmon troubles Health News Digest December 19, 2009 West coast salmon runs have been in decline for decades, stemming largely from the damming of rivers and the pollution throughout th...

2010 pollock harvests lowest in 32 years Alaska Journal of Commerce By Margaret Bauman December 19, 2009 Federal fisheries managers have set the allowable catch for pollock at 813,000 metric tons ...

A better way to catch fish The San Francisco Chronicle December 17, 2009 The nation's fish stocks are plagued by over-fishing, pollution and climate shifts. Drastic closures - such as a canceled s...

Pollock catch set at lowest level in decades KTUU News December 12, 2009 ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) - The North Pacific Fishery Management Council has set the 2010 catch limit for Alaska pollock at 81...

Spring chinook salmon forecast strongest in 70 years The Oregonian By Abby Haight December 11, 2009 Columbia River fisheries managers are predicting the largest return of spring chinook salmon sin...

Fishermen worry about impact of marine policies Monterey County Herald By Gwyneth Dickey December 6, 2009 Times are tough for Monterey fisherman Pete Bruno. For over a decade, tighter and tighter ...

Next year's fishing forecasts holds some good news The Oregonian By Bill Monroe December 5, 2009 Santa Claus may have been a bit naughty to the Oregon State Beavers on Thursday to start the Christ...

For salmon fishing port, the future is murk Los Angeles Times By Alana Semuels December 1, 2009 Reporting from Fort Bragg, Calif. - Just yards from the murky waters of Noyo Harbor, the boats sit t...

Water surges in Mokelumne River yield more salmon Lodi News-Sentinel By Jordan Guinn November 19, 2009 In early October, East Bay Municipal Utility District sent surges of water from the Camanche ...

NOAA releases draft pollock stock assessment Alaska Report November 18, 2009 This week NOAA fisheries researchers presented scientific information to the North Pacific Fishery Management Council's...

Salmon count up in Oroville area Oroville Mercury-Register By Mary Weston November 16, 2009 The fall Chinook salmon run was up on the Feather River this year, but down on the Sacramento River. P...

Salmon run bigger this year Auburn Journal By Kristine Guerra and Gloria Young November 17, 2009 The numbers are low by historical standards, but this year's expected 122,000 salmon run on the Sac...

Large run of spring chinook expected for 2010 The Vancouver Columbian November 13, 2009 By Allen Thomas The spring chinook salmon run in Oregon's Willamette River is improving and expected to be l...

Late-fall king salmon abundant The Sacramento Bee By Jim Jones November 12, 2009 KNIGHTS LANDING - Beginning Monday, anglers get a limited shot at catching king salmon fresh from the ocean on the ...

ODFW see higher fish carcass counts in Rogue River KDRV News By Tove Tupper November 9, 2009 Spring Chinook salmon are making their way up the Rogue River to spawn before they die in the river bed...

Are gill nets decimating Klamath and Trinity runs? The Record Searchlight By Dylan Darling November 8, 2009 Leonard "Spam" Ferris has stretched a gill net into the waters of the Trinity River near...

Snake River wild steelhead return breaks record The Columbia Basin Bulletin October 16, 2009 The total 2009 steelhead count at the lower Snake River's Lower Granite Dam has broken the record, and ...

NOAA survey shows fewer pollock showing up Alaska Journal of Commerce By Margaret Bauman September 25, 2009 Federal fisheries researchers say their latest surveys on Alaska's pollock fishery con...

Fall chinook count huge at Bonneville The Columbian By Allen Thomas September 24, 2009 A mystery that began in the spring has resumed this fall in the Columbia River. In mid-June, when the count...

Fish managers set Columbia River gillnet seasons The Daily News September 23, 2009 Oregon and Washington fish managers set several Columbia River gillnet seasons during a meeting Tuesday (Sept. 22...

Updated Columbia River salmon and steelhead returns The Seattle Times By Mark Yuasa September 22, 2009 The Columbia River Technical Advisory Committee (TAC) made up of Oregon, Washington and triba...

Pollock survey shows fewer fish than anticipated The Seattle Times By Mary Pemberton September 18, 2009 Pollock numbers in the Bering Sea continue to remain depressed despite expectations from gov...

They're hopping on the Klamath The Triplicate By Kurt Madar September 11, 2009 The Klamath River is back, with fishermen from all over hoping to catch a big fall-run chinook. After a couple of yea...

Fall chinook, steelhead catches in August a record The Columbia Basin Bulletin September 11, 2009 The 2009 season's string of peculiar, and for the most part unexplainable, Columbia River basin sa...

Scoping out sardines: project checking numbers Monterey Herald By Daniel Lopez September 9, 2009 Pacific sardines are being harvested and photographed from Monterey to the Canadian border in hopes...

San Francisco Bay's last commercial fishery closes San Jose Mercury News By Paul Rogers September 5, 2009 In an ominous environmental sign, state regulators this week closed all herring fishing in...

West coast fishermen embark on new wave of fishing The Associated Press By Jeff Barnard September 5, 2009 The West Coast groundfish fleet has struggled to stay afloat during major cutbacks to reve...

Steelhead return numbers stay high The Columbia Basin Bulletin August 28, 2009 The preseason forecast envisioned that 278,900 "Group A" summer steelhead would cross the lower Columbia's Bonneville...

Alaska pollock fishery is one of the best managed Fish Information & Services By Michel Loubet August 26, 2009 Genuine Alaska Pollock (GAPP) has released a report stating that the Alaska pollock f...

King salmon undercounted on the Yukon UPI August 20, 2009 A sonar station that counts salmon traveling up the Yukon River in Alaska malfunctioned this year, resulting in a smaller allowed catch, o...

Millions of salmon disappear from Canadian river Reuters By Rod Nickel August 13, 2009 Millions of sockeye salmon have disappeared mysteriously from a river on Canada's Pacific Coast that was once...

Salmon count worries linger Red Bluff Daily News By Geoff Johnson August 12, 2009 The counting of fall run chinook salmon will not begin until late September, but concerns are already floating amo...

Fall chinook season could be approved for Snake Trading Markets August 11, 2009 Fisheries managers for the Idaho Department of Fish and Game and Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife have pro...

Oregon fishermen fear loss of access to petrale sole The Seattle Times Company August 8, 2009 ASTORIA, Ore. - Oregon fishermen say they're nervous about the possibility that petrale sole, one of t...

Fishermen cast some hope for a 2010 salmon season San Jose Mercury News By Cathy Kelly August 6, 2009 Salmon fishing may just materialize here next year, regulators say, for recreational fishermen...

Predatory snail wrecks California oysters Times of The Internet August 3, 2009 A predatory snail indigenous to the Atlantic Ocean is decimating native oysters living in Tomales Bay north of San Fr...