PORTLAND, Ore.— The Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife’s recent count of spring-run Chinook salmon returning to the South Umpqua River showed just 17 wild adult fish detected during snorkel ...

For years, British Columbia’s midwater trawl fishery has been unintentionally catching Chinook salmon. New measures are ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Feb. 21—The Center for Biological Diversity and its allies have sued the National Marine Fisheries Service over what they say is a ...

PORTLAND, Ore. — The Center for Biological Diversity (CBD) and other conservation organizations filed a lawsuit against the National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS) on Tuesday for delaying decisions ...

Spring-run Chinook salmon are also a preferred and primary food for Southern Resident orcas, which are themselves listed as endangered, having a population of only 73 individuals. Diminishing salmon ...

Four national and local wildlife conservation nonprofits sued the National Marine Fisheries Service Tuesday for allegedly failing to make Endangered Species Act protection decisions when they were due ...

Spring Chinook fishing on the Columbia River will close after Friday, April 5, and although fishing has been very slow, there are signs that it will improve during the last days of the fishery.

A Karuk Tribe fisheries crew maneuvers a net to capture juvenile Chinook salmon, coho salmon and steelhead trout in Wooley Creek, a tributary of the Salmon River, in Northern California in August.