Coho fishing slows down in Strait of Juan de Fuca The Seattle Times By Mark Yuasa September 8, 2010 Coho salmon fishing can be a maddening experience with the fish being here one day and gone the ...

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...

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...

Salmon make comeback in SE Portland stream KGW News By Keely Chalmers August 31, 2010 Right in the middle of Southeast Portland, endangered salmon are making a remarkable comeback and soon they'll...

Mystery salmon identified, not native to Napa River Napa Valley Register By Guy Carl August 13, 2010 For the last two springs, the Napa County Resource Conservation District has been monitoring fi...

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...

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...

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...

Endangered salmon go through rough year KSBW News July 16, 2010 A year ago, scorching flames from the Lockheed fire threatened to boil Coho Salmon and Steelhead trout that were nursed at the Monte...

Mattole coho on the brink The Times-Standard By John Driscoll June 21, 2010 Coho salmon in Southern Humboldt County's Mattole River are at a breaking point. The Mattole Salmon Group counted just...

Review finds Oregon coastal coho still at risk Business Week By Jeff Barnard May 25, 2010 Oregon coastal coho salmon remain at moderate risk of extinction from the continued decline of habitat in ...

Feds fine Healdsburg grape grower for salmon kill The Press Democrat By Kevin McCallum May 11, 2010 Federal fisheries officials fined a Healdsburg grape growing family $115,500 Tuesday for frost-p...

Shasta River coho rescue under way The Times-Standard By John Driscoll May 4, 2010 Runs of coho salmon on the Shasta River, a key tributary of the Klamath, have been so weak in recent years that s...

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...

Feds say coho salmon can be saved Mercury News By Kurtis Alexander April 8, 2010 The Central Coast's coho salmon, whose numbers have dwindled to a few dozen in Santa Cruz County, can be rescued fr...

Emergency coho recovery measures Siskiyou Daily News By David Smith March 29, 2010 Thursday's meeting of the Shasta-Scott Recovery Team (SSRT) generated much discussion and public comment as tho...

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...

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 ...

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...

Coho ocean abundance at only 37% of last year's run The Columbia Basin Bulletin February 12, 2010 The ocean abundance of Columbia River coho is expected to be 389,500 fish this year, or about 37 p...

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...

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...

Wine grape watering clashes with salmon protection The San Francisco Chronicle By Jason Dearen January 29, 2010 In this cool, fertile wine growing county in Northern California, grape growers are ...

Coho salmon get a boost in Lake Washington The Seattle Times By Mark Yuasa January 28, 2010 Lake Washington has been getting an annual plant of coho salmon in hopes of increasing their population ...

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...

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...

Marin's coho salmon on the brink of extinction Inside Bay Area By Mark Prado January 2, 2010 Marin's endangered coho salmon population is on the verge of collapse and immediate steps will likely h...

Coho salmon pioneer new runs in the Willamette The Oregonian By Bill Monroe January 2, 2010 Coho salmon have exploded into the Willamette Valley over the past few years, with spawning fish reporte...

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...

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 ...

Rain aids West Marin salmon spawn The San Francisco Chronicle By Peter Fimrite December 19, 2009 The celebrated salmon of west Marin County are taking advantage of the badly needed rain and are wr...

Group consolidates data on Columbia Basin The East Oregonian By Dean Brickey December 8, 2009 Increasing returns of ocean-going fish to the Umatilla sub-basin are being hailed as a management suc...

Fish biologists studying the happy return of wild coho The Oregonian By Abby Haight November 28, 2009 State fisheries officials have captured the record-setting return of wild-born coho salmon to...

Word on Columbia River coho The Seattle Times By Mark Yuasa October 19, 2009 Coho passage at Bonneville Dam through October 18 totals 196,300 adults compared to the preseason expectation of 160,10...

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...

Key salmon spawning rivers all but dry The San Francisco Chronicle By Peter Fimrite September 13, 2009 The key spawning grounds for what was once the greatest run of salmon on the North Coast are ...

Drought-stricken streams threaten California salmon San Jose Mercury News September 6, 2009 California's third year of drought has worsened the already dire outlook for endangered coho salmon, as ...

Good returns expected for Columbia salmon season Associated Press August 5, 2009 Fisheries managers predict a strong return of coho salmon for this year's fall fishing season on the Columbia River...

Seagulls menace endangered salmon Discovery News By Michael Reilly August 4, 2009 Rising seagull populations are laying siege to endangered salmon in central California, according to a new study. ...

Forecast: record 700,000 coho headed for Columbia The Columbia Basin Bulletin July 24, 2009 It's almost time for a changing of the fishing seasons on the Columbia-Snake river mainstem, and in the ...

Colder ocean water was good for salmon last year The Seattle Times By Mark Yuasa June 23, 2009 Like most of the waters off the West Coast, the Pacific Ocean off British Columbia was super salmon-f...

Coho salmon season set for Oregon coastal rivers KDRV News June 11, 2009 COQUILLE, Ore. -- The fishing news is mixed for coastal rivers and streams. The state Fish and Wildlife Commission approv...

California's lost salmon KQED May 12, 2009 Because of a sharp decline in their numbers, the entire salmon fishing season in the ocean off California and Oregon was canceled in both 2008 and 2009. ...

New plan aims to help coho salmon Marin Independent Journal By Mark Prado May 10, 2009 Protecting endangered coho salmon - which experienced their worst spawning season on record this year in coun...

Fish and game commission denies petition Daily News By David Smith April 17, 2009 April 9 marked the end of another chapter in the Klamath River's long history of battles, with the California Fish...

Record coho season expected South Lincoln County News April 14, 2009 Sport anglers can look forward to a banner year of ocean coho salmon fishing under final season recommendations made by the Pac...

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...

Quick drop in water level kills coho The Press Democrat By Glenda Anderson April 4, 2009 Coho salmon migrating toward the ocean this week were killed by a sudden water-level drop in a Russian Rive...

Appeals court upholds feds' salmon hatchery policy San Jose Mercury News By Jeff Barnard March 16, 2009 A federal appeals court Monday upheld the federal government's discretion to use salmon rais...

Forecast predicts one million Columbia coho The Columbian By Allen Thomas February 18, 2009 Mother Nature is giving the southern Washington-northern Oregon coast her own style of stimulus package ...

It's time to protect the fish The Times-Standard By Patricia Wiggins February 17, 2009 Some environmental problems are abstract, affecting places far away and species rarely seen. Others are as cl...

"Alarming" declines in salmon survival detailed Seattle Post-Intelligencer By Robert McClure February 9, 2009 New research documents a "dramatic and alarming" decline in the survival of some salmo...

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...

Editorial: Time for new rules on suction mining The Sacramento Bee January 20, 2009 It's not news that salmon populations have declined drastically. Last year, regulators voted to ban all salmon f...

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 ...

'Crisis situation' for Marin's coho salmon The San Francisco Chronicle By Peter Fimrite January 10, 2009 The lack of rain this winter has contributed to what fisheries biologists say is, so far, t...

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...

Salmon recovery comes of age The Seattle Post Intelligencer By Jeffery P. Koenings December 12, 2008 Early last summer, the outlook for salmon fisheries appeared dire up and down the West Coast. T...

California's water wars heat up Capital Press By Tim Hearden December 11, 2008 Proposed incidental take permits could spread elsewhere, change diversion. A proposal for irrigation in parts of re...

California Salmon and Trout Imperiled Santa Cruz By Traci Hukill December 3, 2008 Coho salmon in Santa Cruz's backyard said at risk of extinction in 50 years. Two years ago UC Davis biologist Pe...

Coastal salmon at center of forest debate The Oregonian By Michael Milstein December 2, 2008 TILLAMOOK -- Five rivers pour into Tillamook Bay, and together they are among Oregon's most important ...

Salmon prospects slightly brighter for 2009 The Vancouver Sun By Scott Simpson November 26, 2008 Fisheries and Oceans Canada says the salmon returns in 2009 will be no worse than this year Comi...

Coho Returns Boosted From 68,600 To 200,000, Many Fish Larger Than Usual The Columbia Basin Bulletin October 17, 2008 Lower Columbia River commercial fishermen got the go-ahead for more fishing th...

This Year's Colder Ocean Conditions Off NW Coast Good News For Salmon Growth The Columbian Basin Bulletin September 12, 2008 The physical and biological ocean conditions that greeted young salmon ...

Cold water rings dinner bell for West Coast salmon The Associated Press By Jeff Barnard September 10, 2008 A federal oceanographer says a flip-flop in atmospheric conditions is creating a feast fo...

Agency accused of failing to protect coho San Francisco Chronicle By Jane Kay February 26, 2008 The state Department of Fish and Game is failing to protect endangered coho salmon by delegating dec...

Building ban proposed in Marin County to protect salmon San Francisco Chronicle By Jane Kay February 7, 2008 The numbers of endangered coho salmon returning to spawn this winter in west Marin Coun...

Number of returning coho salmon plummet in Marin watershed The Associated Press February 6, 2008 LAGUNITAS, Calif.-The number of endangered coho salmon returning to spawn in Marin County has pl...

Marin Coho Salmon Populations Plummet Indybay.org By Dan Bacher February 4, 2008 The spawning season for endangered coho salmon of Marin is the worst recorded in 12 years, causing high levels of c...

Low west coast salmon returns; why the variations? The Columbia Basin Bulletin March 21, 2008 Anticipated record low returns of chinook salmon to the Sacramento and Klamath rivers, and expected lo...

Fall salmon seasons will be down Columbian By Allen Thomas March 20, 2008 There are many details still to work out, but the shape of salmon fishing in the ocean this summer, and the Columbia River...

Early forecast for Columbia coho is cloudy The Seattle Times By Mark Yuasa February 17, 2008 The Columbia River coho forecast was recently released, and anglers shouldn't expect off-the-charts fish...