Officials are still not close to reaching their goal of returning at least 5 million salmon and steelhead to the Columbia River Basin. However, new data shows a positive trend in total abundance ...

The Idaho Capital Sun reported that the 10-year average for salmon runs in the Columbia River Basin currently stands at 2.4 million fish. That’s a massive decline from the 19th century runs ...

SEATTLE— A federal analysis of dams in the Columbia River basin released today fails to move toward the only viable alternative for saving salmon and the Southern Resident killer whales that rely on ...

Average salmon and steelhead counts in the Columbia River Basin over the last decade are still well below officials’ goal of 5 million fish per year. From 2014 to 2023, just 2.3 million salmon ...

The nonprofit has previously noted the Columbia and Snake River dams not only diminish salmon habitats and can kill them as they pass though the dams but also limit salmon harvesting opportunities ...

Officials still are not close to reaching their goal of returning at least 5 million salmon and steelhead to the Columbia River Basin. However, new data shows a positive trend in total abundance ...

“Instead of taking the one step identified by scientists as absolutely crucial for salmon recovery, these agencies failed our region yet again,” said Meg Townsend, an endangered species attorney with ...

About 2.3 million salmon and steelhead migrate up the Columbia River each year, according to the Northwest Power and Conservation Council. That’s double the returns of the 1990s, but half of the ...

This six-episode series tells the story of the salmon of the Columbia River in a way not heard before: through the experiences of a tribal family that relies on the fish as essential to their way ...

The team catch and tag the juveniles which are are living and growing in the river each autumn. The individual salmon are recorded by tag readers and fish traps in the river, as they migrate out ...