The states have released their forecasts for the 2025 spring Chinook return to the Columbia River and its tributaries. The total forecast is for 254,300 returning adults, which would best last year’s ...

The states have agreed to allow an additional week of salmon fishing in the mainstem Columbia after salmon returns were better than expected. The river was slated to close after Sept. 15, and remain ...

Flood risk management, hydropower generation and salmon runs will suffer if the United States and Canada don’t renew a key provision of the treaty that guides how they manage the Columbia River. That ...

The fish trap is the latest experiment as fishery managers look for alternatives to the gillnets that commercial fishermen have used in the Columbia River for decades. For several decades, fishery ...