Low lamprey runs in Columbia worry biologists The Seattle Times By Kevin McCullen September 5, 2010 Columbia River Basin Indian tribes and federal agencies are scurrying to keep time from running ...

Pikeminnow season extended The News Tribune August 29, 2010 While this year's northern pikeminnow reward program is running ahead of last year, officials have opted to extend the season. The ann...

Legal sparring begins on 2010 supplemental salmon BiOp The Columbia Basin Bulletin August 27, 2010 A coalition of fishing and conservation groups and the state of Oregon late last week asked that ...

Fisherman paid $51,000 for pikeminnow KPTV News August 24, 2010 Officials say Oregon anglers are making "serious money" this summer in a program that pays people to catch pikeminnow. The program...

Saving the Pacific lamprey Indian Country Today August 23, 2010 The Pacific lamprey is the most ancient of the native fish in the Pacific Northwest. This eel-like fish that evolved more than 500 m...

Northern pike Seattle PI August 22, 2010 Northern pike in Washington? Yep, they are here and their numbers are exploding. Some goofball transplanted them into Newman Lake, but that's not the real ...

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...

Salmon, steelhead surge in some northwest rivers OPB News By Tom Banse August 16, 2010 Banner runs of salmon and steelhead are migrating up some Northwest rivers this summer. Not since dams were c...

Officials step up projects to help Columbia River lamprey The Oregonian By Ben Pittman-Polletta August 12, 2010 At the north side of the Bonneville Dam spillway, what looks like a ventilation duct...

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...

US considers curbs on Columbia fish hatcheries Seattle PI August 7, 2010 Federal biologists will recommend four options for dealing with salmon hatchery programs that feed into the Columbia River ...

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...

OSU studies rising coastal ocean acidity KGW News By Keely Chalmers August 4, 2010 A team of Oregon State University scientists set out Tuesday on the research vessel Wecoma to study coastal ocean...

Sockeye salmon run sets record for Columbia River The Oregonian By Quinton Smith August 1, 2010 Although there are 100 or so stragglers every day and it will only be "official" in a week or so, th...

Computer modeling contributes to increases in sockeye The Columbia Basin Bulletin July 30, 2010 The stars have been aligned to produce recent years' surge in sockeye returns to the Columbia River ...

Popular Lake Wenatchee sockeye fishery opens Sunday The Seattle Times By Mark Yuasa July 29, 2010 The sockeye salmon runs around Washington continue to wax expectations, and this time Lake Wenatch...

Invasive mussels could cost $100M a year to fight The Seattle Times By Nicholas K. Geranios July 28, 2010 The expected arrival of invasive mussels in the Columbia River Basin could cost $100 milli...

Record number of sockeye salmon at Washington dam The Wenatchee World By Mike Irwin July 26, 2010 Eleven-year-old Alana Riedel watched a salmon that was just about her size swim past Rocky Reach D...

Testing of 'selective' commercial fishing gear The Columbia Basin Bulletin July 23, 2010 The Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife this year will expand considerably its efforts to test "sele...

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...

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...

There's been good news on fish during last decade The Oregonian July 8, 2010 Over the years it's become bad form in the Northwest to say out loud anything positive about the status of threatened s...

Bass-shad study to reduce non-native fish impacts The Columbia Basin Bulletin June 25, 2010 Researchers hope to launch this year an investigation into whether management actions might be necessary...

With numbers up, sockeye season may hit Columbia The News Tribune By Ron Newberry June 23, 2010 Larger than expected counts of sockeye salmon could mean that anglers will get a chance to catch tho...

Now is the time to catch Columbia shad The News Tribune By Allen Thomas June 21, 2010 Shad have been labeled as herring on steroids and the piscatorial Rodney Dangerfield. And although some angl...

Summer chinook run expected to be above average The Columbia Basin Bulletin June 11, 2010 Tribal and non-Indian commercial fishermen, and anglers as well, get to test the Columbia River mainstem w...

Washington state sued to win water for salmon Environment News Service June 7, 2010 Fishing businesses and conservation groups filed suit Thursday against the Washington Department of Ecology, say...

Groups sue over endangered salmon The Epoch Times By Annie Wu June 6, 2010 Conservation group Idaho Rivers United, along with three fishing interest groups, filed suit last Thursday against the Wa...

Third season of sea lion trapping ends The Columbia Basin Bulletin June 4, 2010 A third season of trapping sea lions below the lower Columbia River's Bonneville Dam has come to a close, leaving st...

Groups sue for more water over dams for salmon Seattle Times By Phuong Le June 3, 2010 Conservation and fishermen's groups sued the state Department of Ecology on Thursday to get more water to spi...

Fourth-graders raise, release salmon for tracking Wenatchee World By Rick Steigmeyer June 1, 2010 Osborn Elementary School fourth-graders bid farewell to their fish Friday as they sent them off on...

Salmon ride smoothly through eight dams KBKW News By David Haviland May 26, 2010 Young Northwest salmon and steelhead migrating toward the ocean will benefit for the first time this year from easi...

Dual strategy ramps up to increase fish survival Tri-city Herald By Kevin McCullen May 23, 2010 Suzette Frazier extracted a temperature gauge from a barge tank to ensure her thousands of passenger...

Summer steelhead returning strong Seattle Times By Mark Yuasa May 22, 2010 Strong returns of summer-run steelhead have allowed more liberal catch limits in two Lower Columbia River tributaries, st...

Obama Administration backs Bush-era salmon plan The Oregonian By Scott Learn May 20, 2010 After a court-ordered review, the Obama Administration today submitted its update to a 2008 Bush-era plan ...

Sea lions continue to munch endangered salmon The Oregonian By Scott Learn May 13, 2010 Despite a flurry of shotgun-fired firecrackers, rubber buckshot and lethal injections that have killed 10 Ca...

Too ugly to save? Pacific lamprey numbers plummet The News Tribune By K.C. Mehaffey May 8, 2010 Some 60 years ago, when the Columbia River ran free, a young Elmer Crow stood on the riverbank at t...

BPA renews war on pikeminnows The News Tribune May 9, 2010 This is one sport fishing season that antes up for anglers. The Northern Pikeminnow Sport Reward Fishery Program offers cash to anglers...

Terns consume 15 percent of estuary juvenile salmon The Columbia Basin Bulletin May 7, 2010 The Western population of double crested cormorants is 60 percent bigger than it was 18 years ago largel...

Salmon, steelhead responding to underwater tower The Columbia Basin Bulletin April 30, 2010 Young fish that have long been waiting for an exit are suddenly streaming into the newly created fish co...

2010 sea lion salmon predation breaking records The Columbia Basin Bulletin April 30, 2010 The dynamics continue to change below Bonneville Dam, with most Steller sea lions drifting away from the ...

Pikeminnow aren't only good-looking, they're valuable The Daily News April 29, 2010 The Northern Pikeminnow Sport Reward Fishery Program kicks off Saturday in the lower Columbia and Snake rivers. ...

Research aids Northwest salmon The Daily Iowan By Grace Savides April 27, 2010 Three scale models of hydroelectric dams designed by University of Iowa researchers are good news for salmon - and th...

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...

Feds agree to continue spring spill for salmon, steelhead The Columbia Basin Bulletin April 23, 2010 Federal agencies, following discussions with independent scientists and other Columbia River ba...

NOAA will mix spills and barges to help young salmon OPB News By Rob Manning April 20, 2010 Federal officials announced Monday that they'll follow outside scientific advice and spill scarce Columb...

Feds to follow panel's advice on salmon migration The Seattle Times April 19, 2010 The Obama administration is taking the advice of a panel of scientists on the best way to get young salmon throug...

Steller sea lions stealing salmon The Columbia Basin Bulletin April 16, 2010 With spring chinook counts at Bonneville Dam beginning to mount in recent days, so has the occurrence of sea lions, whi...

Panel recommends spilling, barging of salmon The News Tribune By Kevin McCullen April 13, 2010 A scientific review panel has recommended a dual spilling and barging strategy to help juvenile salmo...

Science panel opposes plan for Columbia salmon The Oregonian By Scott Learn April 12, 2010 An independent science panel has weighed in against the Obama Administration's plans to curtail spills o...

Protect fish to protect fisheries The Columbian By Dan Grogan April 11, 2010 Here in the Northwest, salmon fishermen are used to uncertainty. Climate change, cyclical ocean conditions and low rain...

Chinook salmon may be barged around dams Tricity Herald By Kevin McCullen April 9, 2010 Juvenile steelhead and spring/summer chinook salmon should be collected and barged around Snake River dams d...

Water over the dam works for salmon Seattle Times April 7, 2010 The Obama administration is being told by federal fish biologists and fishing groups to keep spilling water over dams in the Columbi...

Hunt for illegal sturgeon anglers mostly fruitless The Oregonian By Bill Monroe April 3, 2010 Oregon State Police Senior Trooper Mike Hanson settles into the jagged, moss-covered basalt riverbank ...

Fish ladders modified to improve lamprey passage The Columbia Basin Bulletin April 2, 2010 The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers has modified fish ladders to improve Pacific lamprey passage through McN...

Sea lions are killed for eating endangered fish Daily Finance By Eric Wahlgren April 2, 2010 At Bonneville Dam along the scenic Columbia River that divides Oregon and Washington states, a battle i...

Fish-friendly hydro turbines on the drawing board KPLU By Liam Moriarty March 29, 2010 Hydro dams can cause big problems for migrating salmon. They block the fish from getting upstream to spawn. A...

What don't we know about the Columbia salmon plan? Oregon Live By Steven Hawley March 19, 2010 The water supply for the Pacific Northwest for 2010 looks depressingly like it did in 2001. That was ...

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...

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...

Sea lions to be killed to save salmon The San Francisco Chronicle By Abby Haight March 9, 2010 Wildlife officials have tried everything to keep sea lions from eating endangered salmon, dropping bo...

NOAA proposes fish passage operations shift The Columbia Basin Bulletin March 5, 2010 NOAA Fisheries Service says that in low-flow years, such as 2010 is almost certain to be, a shutting off of sp...

Black market caviar tempts poachers KATU News By Dan Tilkin March 4, 2010 Giant sturgeon have been so over fished overseas for their coveted black eggs that pressure is now mounting on Columbia Ri...

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...

Wash., Ore. to begin trapping sea lions again The Columbian By Erik Robinson March 1, 2010 Washington and Oregon wildlife officials will resume their annual campaign to trap and euthanize salmon-m...

Cutthroat doing well enough to avoid listing The Columbia Basin Bulletin February 26, 2010 The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service announced Thursday it will again withdraw its proposal to list as thre...

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...

NOAA takes back plan making dams safer for salmon The Seattle Times By Jeff Barnard February 20, 2010 The Obama administration is following a federal judge's advice and taking three months to once...

Study: Columbia River mussel growth The Columbia Basin Bulletin February 19, 2010 No one wants non-native, invasive zebra or quagga mussels anywhere near the Columbia River basin. So researchers h...

NOAA report: on barged fish vs. in-river The Columbia Basin Bulletin February 19, 2010 A new look at the data, including that collected during the significantly changed hydro operations of recent ...

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 ...

Slinging rotten fish? It's enriching The Daily Astorian By Cassandra Profita February 16, 2010 Spotted this month: Six men heaving hundreds of dead bodies into Clatsop County's Lewis and Clark Riv...

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...

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...

Columbia River salmon dispute continues The New York Times By Colin Miner February 11, 2010 The federal government is being given one last chance to develop a plan that would allow endangered salm...

Columbia River salmon runs plentiful now, but... The Oregonian By Matthew Preusch February 7, 2010 In some Northwest streams, it seems like a return to the storied days when it was said salmon ran...

Increased predation by sea lions on sturgeon The Columbia Basin Bulletin February 5, 2010 Ever-increasing levels of predation by Steller sea lions, and to some degree California sea lions, on whit...

Commission to decide on sturgeon harvest level The Columbian February 3, 2010 Washington's Fish and Wildlife Commission will decide on Friday how deeply it wants cut the sport and commercial harve...

Underwater acoustic tags help endangered salmon Smart Planet By Andrew Nusca January 28, 2010 Researchers at the Department of Energy's Pacific Northwest National Laboratory have developed acousti...

Steelhead kelt reconditioning to boost listed stocks The Columbia Basin Bulletin January 15, 2010 The Northwest Power and Conservation Council this week gave its blessing to a steelhead kelt "reco...

Increased efforts to reduce bird predation at dams The Columbia Basin Bulletin January 8, 2010 The covering of bird predation hot spots with wire arrays and launching of an intensified hazing effo...

Refined forecasts show 2010 could see record return The Columbia Basin Bulletin January 8, 2010 Fishery officials are refining their run-size forecasts for components of this year's return of spri...

Restoration program showing returns 'beyond expectation' The Columbia Basin Bulletin January 8, 2010 Mid-Columbia Coho Restoration Program Showing Fish Returns 'Beyond Expectation' Coho salmon t...

Public testimony ahead for spring chinook The News Tribune January 7, 2010 The state Fish and Wildlife Commission is scheduled to accept public testimony on proposed updates to the Columbia River ...

Smelt season for Cowlitz to be decided next week The Columbian By Allen Thomas January 6, 2010 Washington officials will announce next week if there will be any sport or commercial smelt dipping i...

Will judge approve Columbia River salmon plan? The Oregonian By Matthew Preusch January 5, 2010 For more than a year, salmon experts have been speculating about what U.S. District Court Judge Jame...

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...

Biologists cheer return of Columbia coho The Seattle Times By Shannon Dininny December 30, 2009 Fisheries biologists in the Pacific Northwest are cheering a record return of coho salmon this year ...

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...

Region sees record steelhead run The Spokesman-Review By Rich Landers December 27, 2009 The record run of steelhead that paraded up the Snake River delivered pleasure and profit from the mouth of ...

Sturgeon anglers prepare for steep reductions The Columbian By Allen Thomas December 24, 2009 It is no secret deep cuts are coming to sport and commercial sturgeon fishing in the lower Columbia R...

Internal debate over Obama salmon plan The Oregonian By Matthew Preusch December 24, 2009 Independent scientists largely approved of the Obama administration's plan for Northwest salmon and dam, i...

Progress report on 2008 salmon BiOp implementation Columbia Basin Bulletin December 22, 2009 Federal officials say they are on track, and producing results in terms of improved fish survival, afte...

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 ...

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...