Sockeye sock out ESPN By Robert Montgomery September 8, 2010 For the first time since 2007, anglers fished for Chinook salmon along California's coast. Still, there was not much enthusiasm for t...

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...

Salmon on the move Oroville MR By Rex Burress September 5, 2010 Along about the first of September, if you look in the Feather River at the base of the Fish Barrier Dam, you will see the stir of k...

Dozens of chinook reach Issaquah Salmon Hatchery Issaquah Press September 4, 2010 Rains and cooler temperatures prompted dozens of mighty chinook salmon to return to the Issaquah Salmon Hatchery t...

Riverbed restoration will strengthen salmon runs Sacramento Bee By Matt Weiser September 3, 2010 More spawning gravel will be restored in the American River starting Tuesday as part of a long-runn...

Chase for the king: Salmon fishermen return to Delta The Stockton Record By Alex Breitler September 3, 2010 There is a whiskered catfish, a spiny sturgeon and a gaping largemouth bass mounted on t...

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 ...

Mokelumne River undergoing changes Lodi News August 27, 2010 On a sweltering August morning, a mud-flecked yellow Caterpillar 950 wades through the meandering Mokelumne River near Camache Reservoi...

Volunteers needed to help distribute dead salmon The Statesman Journal By Henry Miller August 24, 2010 What you're about to read isn't about a massive salmon die-off or the work of an organized fi...

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...

Students build first rain-powered fish hatchery in Oregon The Daily Astorian By Deeda Schroeder August 21, 2010 There's a poison that's plagued fishery students at Warrenton High School for years....

River's flow to ocean sign for San Joaquin rebirth The Fresno Bee By Mark Grossi August 19, 2010 On the Valley's west side near Los Banos, something strange is happening this summer in the San Joa...

Snorkelers find fewer chinook salmon Oroville Mr By Heather Hacking August 19, 2010 The results of the annual snorkel survey of spring-run chinook salmon in Butte Creek shows a low number of fish ...

More fish seem to be living in Napa River Napa Valley Register By Mike Treleven August 16, 2010 The number of fish in the Napa River appears to be growing. This year, about 33,000 fish - represe...

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...

Colder ocean should be boost to salmon survival The Columbia Basin Bulletin August 13, 2010 An already chilled northeast Pacific Ocean and rapidly cooling equatorial sea surface temperatures likel...

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...

King salmon gather off Marin coast for run The San Francisco Chronicle By Tom Stienstra August 12, 2010 The "Salmon Highway" off the Marin County Coast is gaining traffic as king salmon stage for ...

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...

New fish trap to be built on North Santiam Statesman Journal By Henry Miller August 5, 2010 Replacement of the Minto Adult Fish Collection Facility near Niagara could close a 2.4-mile section of t...

Group seeks opinion on new water standards Courthouse News Service By Karina Brown August 4, 2010 Two federal agencies never finished their assessment of whether new water quality standards for to...

Chinook run nears peak in Puget Sound The Seattle Times By Mark Yuasa August 4, 2010 The boat ride north to Point No Point (PNP) this morning was a picture perfect drive under a calm water surface...

Coastal salmon fishing is good-news, bad-news situation The Statesman Journal July 28, 2010 Special regulations go into effect Sunday for anglers pursuing fall Chinook salmon on coastal rivers and...

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...

Below average salmon return expected on the Klamath The Times-Standard By Kenny Priest July 22, 2010 More than 110,000 fall Chinook salmon, the largest and most prized of the salmon species, are e...

Salmon fishing to reopen on Sacramento, American... The Modesto Bee July 21, 2010 State and federal fisheries officials believe that king salmon runs returning to Sacramento Valley streams have re...

Alaska asks fishermen to reduce catch CBC News July 20, 2010 The Alaska Department of Fish and Game is asking Americans fishing in the Yukon River to voluntarily reduce the number of chinook salmo...

Count of rescued salmon climbs Chico Enterprise-Record July 17, 2010 The final count in the rescue of spring-run chinook salmon along Butte Creek Thursday was 123 fish. State and federal fisheri...

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...

Trapped fish moved to cooler Butte Creek water ChicoER By Heather Hacking July 16, 2010 Workers cast a net across Butte Creek near Estates Way Wednesday morning, corralling dozens of spring-run Ch...

Water once again flowing in the San Joaquin River KGO News By Ken Miguel July 14, 2010 In California's Central Valley the second longest river in the state has been dry for more than 50 years, its...

Yuba River ruling hits Fisheries Service Appeal-Democrat By Ben van der Meer July 13, 2010 A federal judge has ruled a federal biological opinion on how easy it is for threatened fish species to s...

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...

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...

Idaho Fish and Game panel sets fall chinook season Seattle PI July 10, 2010 The Idaho Fish and Game Commission approved a harvest season on fall chinook salmon starting Sept. 1 on the Snake River ...

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...

Salmon season opens with a whimper Half Moon Bay Review By Amy Julia Harris July 7, 2010 The chinhook may be kings, but the anglers who fish for them feel more like pawns in California's salmon po...

Work begins on Battle Creek dams removal Red Bluff Daily News By Tang Lor July 7, 2010 Cranes, bulldozers and other construction equipment have been busy near Battle Creek in Manton, but the real ...

Genetically modified salmon grows twice as fast Opposing Views July 2, 2010 What do you get when you take an Atlantic salmon, splice in a gene from a Chinook salmon, plus a gene from an ocean pout...

Weather mars opening of salmon season Monterey County Herald By Larry Parson July 2, 2010 Rough seas made for a sour opening Thursday of a much-abbreviated commercial salmon season on the Central ...

Seafood watchdog warns 'Avoid' Oregon coast salmon OPB News By Rob Manning June 28, 2010 One of the leading sustainable seafood watchdogs is telling customers not to buy salmon caught off the Oreg...

16.5M baby salmon released into Calif. waterways Associated Press June 21, 2010 Millions of baby salmon have been released into Northern California waterways to help the struggling fish recover fr...

Steelhead rules liberalized for Oregon rivers Oregon Live By Bill Monroe June 17, 2010 Anglers will get to keep up to three hatchery summer steelhead a day instead of two on the Willamette, Clacka...

Young salmon released in Santa Cruz Press Banner By Mike Baxter Jun 17, 2010 Sixty-five thousand salmon in Santa Cruz Harbor? That's right, and that is only the first load of salmon smolt that w...

Striped bass: Delta villains? Contra Costa Times By Mike Taugher June 15, 2010 It was 1879 when a Harvard-educated fish scientist took striped bass caught in New Jersey's Navesink River and poured...

Save the Stanislaus River Manteca Bulletin By Jeff Shields and Steve Knell June 13, 2010 Both the South San Joaquin and the Oakdale Irrigation Districts are in a fight for their lives against the ...

This time, will we end the water war? The San Francisco Chronicle By Matt Jenkins June 13, 2010 In the grand Western tradition of fistfights down at the water hole, no fight has quite rivaled the ...

Impacts of water temperature on salmon, steelhead The Columbia Basin Bulletin June 11, 2010 Remember when you were a child running barefoot -- how you would run quickly over a hot sidewalk, rest ...

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...

Salmon seasons announced for Northern California rivers Napa Valley Register June 11, 2010 Continuing optimism about salmon populations has led to the announcement of fishing seasons this fall on ...

Task force announces strategies to integrate BDCP BiOp U.S.Fish and Wildlife Service June 9, 2010 A special joint agency task force today announced a near-term science strategy to support the impl...

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...

Kenai River in Alaska closed for king salmon fishing The Seattle Times By Mark Yuasa June 7, 2010 Those who planned a fishing trip up to Soldotna, Alaska to fish the famed Kenai River for king sal...

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...

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...

Federal govt protects sturgeon in Sacramento River The Associated Press June 2, 2010 New federal regulations will soon prohibit catching, killing or harming the rare caviar-producing North America...

Can't waste one fish species to help another The Modesto Bee By Carrie Wilson June 1, 2010 On a local fishing message board, there has been discussion specifically on the killing and discarding of...

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...

Legislature rejects study of peripheral canal alternative Stockton Record By Alex Breitler May 31, 2010 The Legislature will not consider the latest alternative to a peripheral canal: a proposal t...

Salmon fishing regulations set for Feather River... Chico ER By Steve Carson May 28, 2010 Last week's teleconference vote by the California Fish and Game Commission finally approved 2010 salmon fi...

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...

ODFW estimates high Rogue River salmon returns KDRV News By Tove Tupper May 25, 2010 The Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife estimates that Rogue River salmon return numbers will exceed last ye...

Fresno judge lifts delta pumping restrictions The Fresno Bee By John Ellis May. 26, 2010 A federal judge in Fresno on Tuesday temporarily lifted Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta pumping restrictions d...

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...

Mixed feelings about new salmon rules The Stockton Record By Alex Breitler May 21, 2010 For the first time since 2007, anglers this year can chase fall-run Chinook salmon on three Central Valley r...

Last of 1.3 million salmon trucked to bay The Record Searchlight By Dylan Darling May 20, 2010 Trucks carried the last load of fall-run chinook salmon early Thursday from a north state fish hatche...

Judge reverses stance on Delta rules Contra Costa Times By Mike Taugher May 18, 2010 A federal judge who invalidated permits on California's dams and Delta pumps two years ago because they were to...

Fish passage improvement project on pace Daily News By Tang Lor May 18, 2010 More than a month after dignitaries held a groundbreaking ceremony near the Red Bluff Diversion Dam the dirt has finall...

Salmon smolts trucked from Anderson to Bay The Record Searchlight By Dylan Darling May 17, 2010 ANDERSON Problems with an aeration system forced one of four trucks hauling young salmon from a nort...

Feds, PG&E warned about declining salmon runs Central Valley Business Times May 17, 2010 Conservation and fishing groups say Monday that they have notified the Federal Energy Regulatory Commis...

Spring chinook reared in estuary net pens returning The Columbia Basin Bulletin May 14, 2010 The young hatchery spring chinook salmon that emerged from lower Columbia River estuary net pens two ye...

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...

Go fish? News Review By Alastair Bland May 13, 2010 Last fall, the number of chinook salmon that returned to the Sacramento River was the lowest in history. Yet ocean fisherman have received the g...

Salmon release changed to prevent 'straying' The Sacramento Bee By Matt Weiser May 11, 2010 For most fall-run chinook salmon in Central Valley rivers, youth is more akin to a factory assembly lin...

Klamath Basin plan splits up meager water Contra Costa Times By John Driscoll May 7, 2010 Federal officials are giving Klamath River salmon a buffer against potentially deadly low flows this year ...

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...

New U.S. panel aims to unify smelt, salmon protection Sacramento Bee By Michael Doyle May 4, 2010 The Obama administration on Monday set up a new task force to wrangle California water decisions, ...

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 ...

The baby salmon feeding frenzy in San Pablo Bay East Bay Express By Alastair Bland April 28, 2010 Tanker trucks loaded with thousands of baby chinook salmon arrive each week to the shores of San P...

Federal salmon plans unveiled in Fresno The Fresno Bee By Mark Grossi April 28, 2010 About 50 people listened Wednesday as federal officials made their long-awaited first announcements in Fresno a...

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...

Salmon hitch ride out to sea The Record Searchlight By Dylan Darling April 26, 2010 As 10 million of their brethren navigate 200 miles of the Sacramento River to reach the sea, an additional 1.3 m...

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...

Salmon-fishing seasons to be adopted Friday Mail Tribune By Mark Freeman April 22, 2010 The Oregon Fish and Wildlife Commission is set to adopt its share of the ocean salmon-fishing seasons for sp...

Officials delay decision on salmon fishing The Sacramento Bee By Matt Weiser April 21, 2010 State wildlife officials on Wednesday delayed reopening recreational salmon fishing in Sacramento Valley...

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...

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...

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...

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...

Striped bass protections bill faces vocal opposition The Record April 16, 2010 More than 50 Delta fishermen and advocates spoke out against a bill that would have targeted protections for striped ...

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 ...

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...