The number of coho salmon that returned to the Upper Willamette Basin in 2023 smashed previous records and provided a bright spot for anglers seeking to hook the delicious but enigmatic fish. Just ...

The intense rain storms this year acted as a double-edged sword for Marin County’s endangered salmon runs and the biologists who monitor them. While providing ample water in local creeks and streams ...

GLEED - Biologist Todd Newsome lifted the two metal gates from their frame last week, effectively punching the tickets for young Coho salmon to start their trek to the Pacific Ocean. Over the next ...

An endangered species is making a “surprisingly strong” return to a Bay Area creek. The latest count of coho redds (or nests) is over 70 in Olema Creek, about 3 miles southeast of Point Reyes National ...

Marin biologists say an early abundance of salmon returning to nesting grounds in local creeks is signaling that this year’s spawning season could be one for the record books. “We saw more chinook ...

A researcher measures a dead coho found in Seattle’s Longfellow Creek in 2014. More than a decade ago, researchers began noticing that adult coho were dying before returning to spawn in urban creeks ...

The excitement started with a flash of silver followed by a hefty dose of disbelief. A team of conservationists and biologists from The Wildlands Conservancy, the nonprofit that manages the 5,600-acre ...

Radio tags for a multi-year coho salmon monitoring project are inserted into the stomach through the mouth, with an antenna that sticks out. (From Alaska Department of Fish and Game) Last month, the ...

As soon as it rains, coho salmon likely will swim up a small creek to a spawning ground in the west Sonoma County hills that has been impassable to the species for decades. When they come to the ...

PORTLAND, Ore. (CN) — While a controversial southern Oregon dam may delay the migration of a threatened species of salmon, the impact isn’t significant enough to violate federal environmental laws, a ...