Study looks at in-stream turbine effects on fish News Miner By Reba Lean September 5, 2010 Outside the small town of Eagle, the water is churning. This summer Alaska Power and Telephone installed ...

FDA considers approving genetically modified salmon The Washington Post By Lyndsey Layton September 6, 2010 The Food and Drug Administration is poised to approve the first genetically modified an...

Where dams once stood, prospectors spur anger New York Times By Felicity Barringer September 3, 2010 When four dams on the Rogue River here were scheduled for removal, environmentalists predicted ...

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...

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-...

Disease decimates salmon farms in Chile UPI Augusy 17, 2010 Struggling to recover from a devastating health crisis, the once-booming salmon farming industry in Chile faces an uncertain future, exp...

Tracking salmon with the help of seals Time By Katy Steinmetz August 16, 2010 The sea doesn't give up its secrets easily. Water may cover 70% of the planet, but unless you get inside it - often ve...

NOAA takes fresh look at hatchery plan The News Tribune By Kevin McCullen August 15, 2010 The agency overseeing Columbia Basin salmon and steelhead fishery management is exploring alternatives to ...

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 ...

Alaska salmon season update FIS August 4, 2010 Alaska's 2010 summer salmon season kicked off on 13 May and will run through October. Alaskans project to harvest 137 million wild Alaska salmon duri...

Oregon limits dredges for gold in salmon streams SeattlePI By Jeff Barnard August 3, 2010 Small-time miners running suction dredges to glean flecks of gold from salmon streams face tighter regulat...

Delta predators The California Report July 30, 2010 The water rights battle in the Sacramento Delta is intensifying. Farmers are trying to prove that the state's massive water pumps aren't the onl...

Logs flown in to help restore salmon habitat The Oregonian By Ben Pittman-Polletta July 26, 2010 The sound of a helicopter filled the woods south of Estacada on Monday as the crew of Columbia Heli...

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...

Iceland to expand fish farming effort FISHupdate July, 15 2010 Fish farming remains a small part of Iceland's overall fishing industry, but it is set to grow, says the Islandsbanki seafood report....

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...

Warm water may mean malformed salmon bones UPI July 6, 2010 Rearing young salmon in relatively warm waters, used when farmers want to increase fish growth rates, causes skeletal deformities, Norwe...

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...

NL aquaculture industry to expand FIS June 17, 2010 Newfoundland and Labrador's (NL) aquaculture industry is expected to continue growing in the coming years as a second New Brunswick (NB) firm bo...

One step closer to fully sequencing the salmon genome Sify News June 15, 2010 Scientists are one step to fully sequencing the genome of the economically important, environmentally sensitive Atlant...

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...

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...

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...

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 ...

Commerce limits pollock fleet's salmon bycatch Alaska Daily News May 20, 2010 The Commerce Department has approved a recommendation to limit the number of king salmon caught each year by the pollo...

Global warming threatens trout and salmon UPI May 20, 2010 Welsh scientists say trout and salmon populations have decreased during recent decades and new evidence shows global warming might put bo...

'Climate change' danger to salmon and trout BBC News May 17, 2010 Researchers studied young salmon and trout populations in the River Wye and its tributaries between 1985 and 2004. The study fou...

Climate threatens trout and salmon EurekAlert May 17, 2010 Trout and salmon are among the world's most familiar freshwater fishes, but numbers have fallen over recent decades - in some areas, dram...

Board approves study of fish bypass proposal Siskiyou Daily By David Smith May 10, 2010 The Siskiyou County Board of Supervisors has one proposal for an alternative to dam removal ready for submis...

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...

Early results of salmon count have scientists upbeat Napa Valley Register By Mike Treleven May 10, 2010 The Napa River appears to be a fairly healthy place for fish to live and grow, according to ...

Scientists to study Western Alaska salmon declines The Tundra Drums May 5, 2010 Scientists at the University of Alaska Fairbanks will spend two years studying declines and variability in Western A...

Oregon conference discusses protecting wild salmon The Seattle Times By Abbt Haight May 5, 2010 Biologist Rich Lincoln worries that the fragile balance of endangered salmon runs are threatened by ...

EPA presses pesticide makers to protect salmon The Seattle Times By Jeff Barnard May 4, 2010 The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency is pressing pesticides manufacturers to adopt new restrictions...

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...

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...

Striped bass protections stay put Stockton Record By Alex Breitler April 8, 2010 The state Fish and Game Commission on Wednesday kept protections in place for the popular striped bass, which eats ...

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...

Salmon producers' demand troubles artisanal fishers FIS April 7, 2010 The Chilean salmon farming companies kicked off an intense campaign to lobby the government for more space in the austral regi...

Salmon closure cost 1,800 their jobs, not 23,000 The Stockton Record By Alex Breitler April 6, 2010 Job losses in the salmon fishing industry are not as severe as fishers claim, says a University ...

Local congressmen attend salmon summit KGO News By Mark Matthews April 1, 2010 Hundreds of angry salmon fisherman crowded into a meeting with elected officials in San Francisco on Thursday. It wa...

Cormorant hazing starts next week on north coast Statesman Journal April 1, 2010 Hazing of double-crested cormorants that eat juvenile salmon and steelhead on their migration to the Pacific will ...

Corps releases possible dam breaching plan of study Tricity Herald March 31, 2010 The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers today released a plan of study that outlines steps that could be taken to evaluat...

Bill aims to take bass out of Delta Stockton Record By Peter Ottesen March 31, 2010 Striped bass have become targets, not of sport anglers who enjoy catching them, but of Delta water exporters who...

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...

Klamath River fish diseases spreading The Times-Standard By John Driscoll March 24, 2010 Biologists expect to see the host of a lethal fish disease continue to spread in the middle Klamath River u...

Ground broken for Red Bluff fish passage project The Record Searchlight By Janet O'Neill March 24, 2010 Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger and Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar were among those who sp...

Rule aims to limit accidental salmon catch KTUU News By Mary Pemberton March 23, 2010 A federal agency said Tuesday that a program could be in place by next year limiting the number of king salmon...

Pesticides detected in Washington salmon habitats Eat Drink and Be By Danielle Koagel March 22, 2010 An investigation by the Washington state departments of Ecology and Agriculture has found low c...

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 ...

Assessment of salmon and steelhead ESA listings The Columbia Basin Bulletin March 19, 2010 NOAA Fisheries has initiated its planned five-year review of Pacific salmon and steelhead populations lis...

Protect whales or salmon they eat? The Bellingham Herald By Les Blumenthal March 17, 2010 When it comes to dinner, Puget Sound's killer whales show no respect for international boundaries. It's lo...

Salmon fishery doubtful for 2010 Granite Bay Press Tribune By George deVilbiss March 9, 2010 For a couple of years now, there has been no offshore salmon fishery for any recreational, sport angler...

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...

Federal government urged to protect B.C. wild salmon The Globe and Mail By Mark Hume March 2, 2010 Ten environmental organizations have written to Fisheries Minister Gail Shea urging the federal g...

Mismanagement by PG&E is killing two California rivers PR Newswire March 1, 2010 Today the Friends of the Eel River (FOER) brought legal action before the State Water Resources Control Board (...

Research to find salmon answers Highland News February, 25 2010 Fishermen and conservationists and are united in their concerns about the dwindling number of Atlantic salmon in rivers across the U...

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...

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...

Klamath dam pacts signed in Oregon Capitol The Times-Standard By John Driscoll February 19, 2010 Agreements to tear out four dams on the Klamath River and rebuild its storied salmon fisheries were...

Group eyes ban on commercial gillnets Statesman Journal By Henry Miller February 18, 2010 A top official with the Coastal Conservation Association (CCA) said Wednesday that the sponsors hope to re...

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...

New Research on Atlantic salmon asks if size matters? The Salmon Atlas February 15, 2010 Conservationists and salmon fishermen are united in their concerns about the dwindling number of Atlantic s...

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...

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...

Fishing season-setting time has arrived The Bellingham Herald By Doug Huddle January 21, 2009 This month the annual task of protecting wild runs, while divvying up harvestable salmon as they retur...

Fish boom makes splash in Oregon The Wall Street Journal By Joel Millman January 21, 2010 NEHALEM, Ore.-Adam Rice hasn't had a job since October. The 32-year-old carpenter is a victim of the regio...

Center to hatch 20,000 endangered salmon eggs Bangor Daily News By Sharon Kiley Mack January 13, 2010 The eggs aren't in warm little nests. They aren't being warmed by a heat lamp. Instead, 20,000...

Final Klamath restoration pact released The Times-Standard By John Driscoll January 9, 2010 Negotiators have released a final restoration plan for the Klamath River, meant to accompany an agreemen...

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...

Farmed salmon ... and genetic mystery ScienceDaily December 22, 2009 It's known that escaped fish from Norwegian salmon farms can interbreed with wild salmon, and thus must have changed the genet...

Evaluation of commercial 'selective' fishing gear Columbia Basin Bulletin December 22, 2009 A pilot study this year showed enough promise for the Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife to expa...

Pesticide runoff impacts salmon recovery UPI December 21, 2009 Reducing pesticide runoff from farms and homes could speed the recovery of wild salmon populations in the western United States, biol...

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...

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...

Cured fish eggs harmful to salmon, steelhead The Columbia Basin Bulletin December 18, 2009 A recent study by the Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife confirms that some commercially-available cu...

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...

Groups offer new course for Klamath dam removal San Jose Mercury News December 15, 2009 Three environmental groups that don't like the pending deal to remove dams on the Klamath River have banded ...

PUD, landowners talk salmon recovery The Columbia Basin Herald By Lynne Lynch December 8, 2009 During the following months, policy discussions could occur regarding Grant County PUD's proposed sup...

First salmon try out new fish tower on Deschutes River The Oregonian By Matthew Preusch December 3, 2009 It's been four decades since salmon were able to complete their circuitous life journey to ...

Study looks at sustainable salmon production The Columbia Basin Bulletin November 25, 2009 Popular thinking about how to improve food systems for the better often misses the point, according to th...

Judge likes NW salmon plan but sees legal flaw The Oakland Tribune By Tim Fought November 24, 2009 PORTLAND, Ore.-A federal judge says the government's latest plans for making Columbia Basin dams ...

Washington adopts hatchery, harvest reforms The Columbia Basin Bulletin November 13, 2009 The Washington Fish and Wildlife Commission on Nov. 6 voted to adopt a new state hatchery and fishery refo...

Farmed salmon capable of eating wild fish Tmes Colonist By Judith Lavoie October 28, 2009 A wild Pacific salmon smolt found in the stomach of an Atlantic salmon on the lam shows escaped farm fish ...

Plan to evaluate salmon passage survival The Columbia Basin Bulletin October 30, 2009 The Independent Scientific Review Panel has given a thumbs-up to a research plan aimed at evaluating whether, ...

Strict conservation plan for Northwest salmon The San Francisco Chronicle By William McCall September 16, 2009 Calling it an "insurance policy" for salmon, the Obama administration has developed a...

EPA announces plan to protect salmon Common Dreams September 11, 2009 Today, the federal Environmental Protection Agency announced plans to place additional limitations on the use of three organop...

Fish farm boom strains wild stock, study finds MSNBC September 9, 2009 More and more fish are being raised on farms before they end up on dinner plates around the world. Aquaculture, or the cultur...

Northwest fear, invasive mussels are headed its way The Modesto Bee By Les Blumenthal August 26, 2009 Highly invasive mussels are lurking on the Northwest's doorstep, threatening to gum up the dam...

Judge gives NOAA another month for salmon plan Forbes August 11, 2009 PORTLAND, Ore. -- A federal judge Monday gave the Obama administration another month before saying where it stands on the Bush...

Alaska fish counters weigh the scales Fairbanks Daily News-Miner By Tim Mowry July 19, 2009 FAIRBANKS - Like a ghost, the fish appeared out of nowhere, but it didn't escape the polarized eye of Vi...

Saving the Columbia and Snake river salmon Los Angeles Times By Paul VanDevelder July 6, 2009 If ever there were a story that foreshadowed the political and legal Waterloos that loom in seeking s...

Close salmon farms now, advocates say Vancouver 24 Hours By Dharm Makwana June 16, 2009 Advocates called for the complete closure of five open-net salmon farms in the Northern Georgia Straight Tue...

Navy divers close locks to protect salmon United Press International June 3, 2009 SEATTLE - An Army Corps of Engineers official says U.S. Navy divers helped close underwater doors at Seattle's Hir...

Senate approves Wiggins' salmon bill The Times-Standard June 3, 2009 The state Senate voted 23-10 Monday to approve legislation by North Coast Sen. Patricia Wiggins, D-Eureka, that aims to enhance...

Bounty of small salmon creates Columbia River mystery The Seattle Times By Hal Bernton May 30, 2009 BONNEVILLE DAM - In the world of salmon, size matters. That's because big male fish have the bes...

Obama administration officials discuss biop The Columbia Basin Bulletin May 29, 2009 Top officials traveled west this week to continue the Obama Administration's examination of a legally beleague...

All we do now to save salmon could mean nothing The Idaho Statesman By Rocky Barker May 3, 2009 The Pacific Northwest has spent two decades retooling dams, rebuilding damaged watersheds and restor...