Salmon fisheries in the Pacific Northwest are worried that conservation efforts and environmental problems could devastate the lucrative spring season. On fishing docks up and down 700 miles of ...

The U.S. government promised Native tribes in the Pacific Northwest that they could keep fishing for salmon as they’d always done. But instead of working to preserve wild salmon, the federal ...

Due to over-fishing and dams, wild salmon have declined by 90% in Washington, Oregon and California. That decline has a much broader effect than what might be expected.

The Fight to Preserve Salmon in the Pacific Northwest. Author Langdon Cook discusses his new book, "Upstream: Searching for Wild Salmon From River to Table." By Stephen Strom June 2, 2017. ... Much of ...

Every spring and fall, Chinook salmon make their way from the Pacific Ocean into the Klamath River, in northern California. Historically, their black-speckled bodies would swim upstream, around ...

The colors of summer are the most vivid of all the fishing seasons. Everything from the Puget Sound’s emerald green water, to the shimmering blue water off the coast, and the brightly-colored ...

Indian fishermen dipnetting salmon at Celilo Falls on the Columbia in 1952. The falls, a major fishing site for tribes across the Pacific Northwest, was submerged when The Dalles Dam was built in ...

How shad and other species affect Pacific Northwest salmon. By Elizabeth Castillo (OPB) Feb. 15, 2022 5:55 p.m. Updated: ... So there’s a little bit of commercial fishing, ...

Climate change has pushed temperatures up, further imperiling the Pacific Northwest's iconic fish species. ... Bob Rees has been leading salmon fishing trips in Oregon for nearly 30 years.

A dam on the lower Klamath River known as Copco 2 is seen near Hornbrook, Calif., on March 3, 2020. (AP Photo/Gillian Flaccus, File) For the first time in more than a century, salmon will soon ...

Salmon, of course, is an iconic fish of the Pacific Northwest. White said their retail business at the Portland State University Farmer’s Market is “a gem” for people in downtown to “come ...