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Godofredo A. V谩squez/AP PhotoWith salmon fishing barred off the California coast for two years, fishermen have been running historic boat tours, party cruises, and scattering the ashes of the deceased to try to stay afloat. Now, fishing fleets are gearing up for a third year. -
Mark Hereford/Oregon Department of Fish and WildlifeEnvironmental groups and timberland owners are calling on Oregon lawmakers to support a yearslong agreement that will be slashed under current budget proposals.
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More than 200 studies across 40 years revealed large-scale salmon hatchery programs weaken wild salmon diversity and lead to wild population declines. -
Salmon populations in the Scott and Shasta rivers have crashed, so state officials are about to restrict irrigation again. And the controversial rules may even become permanent. -
The White House has reached what it says is an historic agreement over the restoration of salmon in the Pacific Northwest, a deal that could end for now a decades long legal battle with tribes. -
The agency has a history of diving into big construction projects that exceed projected costs, fall short on projected benefits and, in some cases, create new problems that engineers hadn鈥檛 bargained for. -
The Yurok, Port Gamble S鈥橩lallam and Puyallup tribes, and the attorneys general of Oregon and Washington, want the chemical banned to save salmon. -
Members of the Lower Elwha Klallam Tribe on Washington's Olympic Peninsula harvested about 200 coho salmon from their home river in October. That marked a milestone for river restoration a decade after two dams on the Elwha River were dismantled. It could also offer a window into the future of the Klamath River, as four dams there are being removed. -
The Army Corps of Engineers says its fish collection machines can save salmon in Oregon. Many disagree. -
A group of environmental nonprofits has petitioned the National Marine Fisheries Service to add protections for the fish under the federal Endangered Species Act. -
U.S. Department of Commerce declared a Chinook fishery disaster for 2018, 2019 and 2020 when salmon populations plummeted. -
As four aging hydroelectric dams are demolished, tribes and communities along the Klamath River wait anxiously to see what the future holds. 鈥淥nce a river is dammed, is it damned forever?鈥� experts ask. -
The Biden administration on Wednesday announced nearly $200 million in federal infrastructure grants to upgrade tunnels that carry streams beneath roads but can be deadly to salmon and other fish that get stuck trying to pass through. -
Decades of data show that despite billions in taxpayer investment, salmon and steelhead hatchery programs and restoration projects in the Columbia River Basin have failed to support or boost native fish populations and in fact are contributing to their decline.
