Idaho hatchery officials kill thousands of steelhead The Spikesman-Review September 8, 2010 Federal fish managers say they opted to kill tens of thousands of juvenile steelhead after finding a pot...

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...

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...

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....

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 ...

Coho recovery relies on breeding in captivity Marin Independent Journal By Mark Prado August 7, 2010 Wildlife officials are now faced with taking a drastic step to stop Marin coho salmon from disa...

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 ...

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...

Warm water led to Lake Shasta fish kill The Recond Searchlight By Dylan Darling, Ryan Sabalow August 2, 2010 Hundreds of rainbow trout that floated to the surface dead at the Centimudi Boat ramp d...

Leadville hatchery a window to Colorado's past and future Post Independent By Julie Sutor July 31, 2010 As Colorado's state fish, the greenback cutthroat trout is a symbol of the Rocky Mountains' ...

New hatchery to rebuild snake river sockeye The Columbia Basin Bulletin July 23, 2010 The Idaho Department of Fish and Game this week completed its purchase of a former southeast Idaho trout hatch...

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...

Salmon receiving another lift from Puget Sound Energy Financial Post July 14, 2010 Puget Sound Energy recently completed construction of a new fish hatchery and an advanced upstream trap-and-haul ...

DFG working through fish plant reports The Record Searchlight By Dylan Darling June 22, 2010 State biologists gauging the environmental impact of hatchery-raised trout have approved stocking all 6...

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...

Hatchery fish are going well... and wild PhysOrg June 18, 2010 Led by Dr Matthew Taylor from the University of New South Wales and in collaboration with NSW Department of Industry and Investment, ...

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...

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...

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...

Steelhead belong in rivers, Oregon study shows why The Bellingham Herald By Roger Phillips May 18, 2010 After the awesome 2009-10 steelhead run ended, I was ready to tuck away my fly rods and bask...

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...

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...

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...

Sockeye anglers hopeful on Cedar River hatchery The Seattle Times By Mark Yuasa May 8, 2010 A recent report has stirred up speculation on whether work can begin soon on a permanent Cedar River soc...

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 ...

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...

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...

CDFG continues to clear eastern Sierra waters Sierra Wave By Tom Woods April 13, 2010 With just over a week left before the general trout opener, Fish and Game staff continues to work to open wate...

$768 for every salmon caught in Puget Sound Seattle Times By Craig Welch April 10, 2010 Puget Sound's popular blackmouth fishery - made possible by a complex system of hatcheries that produce and ...

Fish-spawning prototype feeds into hatchery The San Francisco Chronicle By Peter Fimrite March 27, 2010 A crowd of schoolchildren stood at a bend in a creek under the shadow of the Warm Springs Da...

Hatchery steelhead program to end in upper Cowlitz The Daily News March 20, 2010 A hatchery winter steelhead fishery in the upper Cowlitz River will end because of efforts to return to a naturally...

Fish restoration could be a catch for Rio Vista The Sacramento Bee By Matt Weiser March 12, 2010 Rio Vista, long a hub for levee building and dredging in the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta, could fi...

Salmon net pen may mean more catches for anglers Seattle Times By Mark Yuasa March 6, 2010 The Central Puget Sound area could see a boost in catches by the 2011 fall fishing season, thanks to the ...

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...

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...

California Fish and Game sued over hatchery fish Justice News Flash Nicole Howley February 16, 2010 Legal news for California environmental attorneys. Nonnative hatchery fish are threatening nativ...

CDFG fish hatchery and stocking program Trading Markets February 5, 2010 SUMMARY: The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS) announces the availability of the final EIR/EIS for the California Depart...

Salmon populations continue to decline Indian Country Today By Don Baumgart January 29, 2010 West Coast salmon fishing disappeared two years ago, under a government ban prompted by low fish popula...

Winter steelhead returning in large numbers The Daily Astorian By Cassandra Profita January 14, 2010 A thick run of early winter steelhead will be swimming back to hatcheries on six North Coast ri...

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...

More salmon smolts will be trucked from north The Record Searchlight By Dylan Darling January 8, 2010 Salmon will again be heading out on the highway this spring to travel from a north state hatch...

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...

Hatchery-raised salmon too crowded R&D December 22, 2009 Every year, large amounts of hatchery-raised young salmonids are released into Swedish rivers and streams to compensate for losses in natur...

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...

The fishing report The San Francisco Chronicle By Brian Hoffman December 24, 2009 The 2009 fall run of king salmon came and went, we'll call that a fact. Rode the summer ocean into the bay and del...

Salmon make comeback The Stockton Record By Peter Ottesen December 16, 2009 More than 1,400 Chinook salmon have migrated into the Mokelumne River Fish Hatchery this autumn, a dramatic increase fro...

Fish farms fear they may fall fallow Central Valley Business Times By Ching Lee December 7, 2009 California aquaculture producers say proposed state regulatory changes aimed at minimizing environm...

DFG to continue the Fish Stocking Program thru Jan. Examiner By Jody Only December 5, 2009 The Fish Stocking Program of the California Department of Fish Game (DFG) will continue following weeks o...

County leaders: fish-stocking pullback stinks The Union Democrat By Walt Cook November 18, 2009 A proposal to eliminate the stocking of non-native fish in several waterways and one reservoir in Tu...

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...

North state salmon run plummets again Redding Record Searchlight By Ryan Sabalow November 13, 2009 The all-but-finished fall salmon run at Coleman National Fish Hatchery is down 60 percent from la...

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...

Idaho wants hatchery to increase Snake River sockeye The Columbia Basin Bulletin October 9, 2009 The state of Idaho hopes to soon take a huge step forward in its effort to rebuild a Snake River s...

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...

Colville tribes to get new salmon hatchery The Seattle Times July 26, 2009 The Confederated Tribes of the Colville Reservation plan to break ground next spring on a $41 million hatchery to boost s...

Warning on trout hatcheries could force changes San Francisco Chronicle By Peter Fimrite July 5, 2009 Hatchery-raised steelhead trout pass on genetic defects that hamper survival of even their wil...

Hatchery fish may hurt efforts to sustain wild runs South Lincoln County News By David Stauth June 23, 2009 Steelhead trout that are originally bred in hatcheries are so genetically impaired that,...

Fitness of wild-born offspring of hatchery fish The Columbia Basin Bulletin June 12, 2009 Steelhead trout that are originally bred in hatcheries are so genetically impaired that, even if they surv...

500,000 salmon start life in strait Times-Herald By Tony Burchyns June 5, 2006 With fingers crossed, state officials Thursday dumped about a half-million young salmon into Mare Island Strait as pa...

Smelt operations a hedge against extinction The Record Searchlight By Dylan Darling May 28, 2009 If the fragile Delta smelt winds up going extinct, the species could be restored where the Sacramen...

Study looks into how hatchery fish eat wild fish The Times-Standard By John Driscoll May 18, 2009 The debate over how hatchery-produced salmon and steelhead can be used to bolster runs of wild fis...

All about fish and oyster farming USC News By Carl Marziali May 8, 2009 There are cynics who see only catastrophic answers to Earth's population explosion: War and pestilence come to mind. Then ...

Salmon smolt slaughter irks local skipper Marin Independent Journal May 7, 2009 Morning Star Skipper Gordon Hough says the salmon smolt slaughter is under way again. Or, as Hough put it in a let...

Where have all the salmon gone? Sierra Mountain Times By Craig A. Will April 24, 2009 In the fall of 2007, fish biologists counting the number of Chinook salmon returning from the ocean to spawn v...

Suit keeps state out of trout business Stockton Record By Peter Ottesen April 22, 2009 Many Sierra streams and lakes open Saturday for the start of trout fishing season. Anglers, however, will hav...

Marine fishing regulations adopted for 2009 Bend Weekly Apr 17, 2009 CORVALLIS, Ore. - The Oregon Fish and Wildlife Commission today adopted 2009 regulations for several marine fisheries, approved...

Sound fishing ahead on coast The Spokesman-Review April 12, 2009 Puget Sound is the big winner in saltwater salmon seasons set recently by Pacific Fishery Management Council. By allowing selecti...

Fall-run chinook lags; coho run will be huge The Statesman Journal April 10, 2009 For a second year in a row, a collapsed salmon run on the Sacramento River in California will mean almost no sport...

Salmon smolts again will be trucked The Record Searchlight By Dylan Darling April 8, 2009 For the second year in a row, more than a million mini salmon will bypass their normal swim down the Sacra...

Call for changes to Columbia River salmon hatcheries The Seattle Times By Hal Bernton March 28, 2009 In a report released Friday to Congress, biologists called for big changes in the sprawling Col...

Salmon booms and busts tough to change The San Francisco Chronicle By Jeff Barnard March 18, 2009 Federal fisheries biologists say the 2008 collapse of salmon returning to California's Sacramento ...

PFMC releases review of 2008 ocean fisheries The Columbia Basin Bulletin February 20, 2009 The Pacific Fishery Management Council's Salmon Technical Team has prepared a post-season review of the 2...

Returning chinook salmon a record low The Sacramento Bee By Jason Dearen February 18, 2009 SAN FRANCISCO -- A record-low number of chinook salmon returned to rivers in California's Central Valley ...

The state of the wild salmon? Not so great The Tri-City News By Elaine Golds February 12, 2009 Recently, I had the opportunity to attend an international conference in Vancouver on salmon of the P...

Salmon anglers look for hope The Times-Standard By John Driscoll February 10, 2009 Despite a bumper crop of Klamath River salmon feeding at sea, federal fisheries managers may be faced with the sa...

Coho salmon vanishing from Russian River KGO News February 9, 2009 GEYSERVILLE, CA (KGO) -- The North Bay streams and creeks that feed the Russian River were once prime breeding grounds for one of...

River Watcher: The California fish dilemma Chico Enterprise-Record By Rex Burress February 8, 2009 The bulging human population pressure put on inland fishing resources has finally caught up with ...

Mokelumne salmon population shrinks further The Sacramento Bee By Matt Weiser February 4, 2009 The salmon hatchery on the Mokelumne River will fall far short of its production quota this year, and...

Reason for salmon reduction unknown The Grass Valley Union By Denis Peirce January 21, 2009 The Department of Fish and Game released their statistics for the abbreviated 2008 salmon season last we...

Will the Mokelumne's salmon ever return? Lodi News-Sentinel By Andrew Adams January 17, 2009 Thousands of salmon have vanished from the Mokelumne River. What's worse: Experts aren't sure what is...

Biologists use dead fish to boost Rogue River runs ABC-KDRV News By Ron Brown January 14, 2009 NEAR GALICE, Ore. -- Years of below average salmon runs in the Rogue River Basin has Oregon Fish and ...

Salmon population dwindling in California ABC-KGO News By Ken Miguel January 14, 2009 SAN JOAQUIN VALLEY, CA (KGO) -- Fishermen are bracing themselves for another major salmon shortage this year. ...

Coho salmon are bred for diversity, strength The San Francisco Chronicle By Peter Fimrite January 3, 2009 The nets that volunteers held in a remote river valley near Bodega Bay were full of the sq...

Avoid riverbed near hatchery to protect new salmon eggs The Sacramento Bee By Matt Weiser January 3, 2009 A program to improve fish habitat in the American River has proved to be so successful tha...

Who loses when the state plants trout? Maybe the angler The San Francisco Chronicle By Roland A. Knapp December 31, 2008 California anglers are concerned that an agreement to limit stocking nonnat...

Salmon hatcheries report on their egg collection The Sacramento Bee By Matt Weiser December 30, 2008 The Nimbus Hatchery on the American River has met its annual quota for spawning fall-run chinoo...

Court Decision Banning Trout Plants Will Have Wide Ranging Impact Indybay By Dan Bacher Dec 29, 2008 Lake Natoma, situated on the American River east of Sacramento, is one of the best habitats in...

Environmental concerns halt state's trout stocking Contra Costa Times By Paul Thissen December 26, 2008 The foot-long rainbow trout tumble out of the truck through a translucent tube, flying momen...

Oregon Surprises Washington On Catch-Sharing Plan; 'Meeting Of The Minds' Necessary The Columbia Basin Bulletin December 19, 2008 The Washington Fish and Wildlife Commission on Saturday deferred a...

NOAA To Launch ESA Review Of 100 Federally Funded Basin Hatchery Programs The Columbia Basin Bulletin December 12, 2008 The NOAA Fisheries Service next month will launch a review of some 100 feder...

Preseason 2009 Forecasts Show Big Returns For Upriver Spring Chinook, Fall Chinook The Columbia Basin Bulletin December 12, 2008 The Columbia/Snake river basin's waterways should be brimming with ...

For first time in decades, Kaweah, Kern rivers won't be stocked with fish Visalia Times-Delta By Brett Wilkison December 6, 2008 Critics fear state stocking program will lead to extinction of seve...

Salmon rumor cleared San Francisco Chronicle By Tom Stienstra December 7, 2008 A wild rumor this past week was that the Coleman National Fish Hatchery was killing 5 million ready-to-hatch salmon e...

More time for DFG stocking analysis The Inyo Register By Mike Gervais December 3, 2008 Trout stocking in the Eastern Sierra is expected to carry on as usual, despite new restrictions that have bee...

'Extra' salmon eggs could become fish food The Record Searchlight By Dylan Darling December 3, 2008 Despite a drastically low Chinook salmon run this fall, some of the millions of fertilized salmo...

Deal reached to limit planting fish for sport The Sacramento Bee By Matt Weiser November 21, 2008 Anglers may no longer be able to catch rainbow trout in many of California's mountain lakes, the ...

Will Review Mandated By Congress Shift Columbia Basin Hatchery, Harvest Strategies? Columbia Basin Bulletin November 14, 2008 Can the Columbia/Snake river basin "have its cake and eat it too," -- ...

Ninth Circuit Hears Arguments On NOAA's Wild/ Hatchery ESA Listings Policy The Columbian Basin Bulletin October 24, 2008 A federal appellate judge panel spent part of Monday morning playing devil'...