A recent NOAA report anticipates salmon returns above the 10-year average, but that's likely an outlier when ocean conditions continue to shift.

Also, the opening of the salmon season on the upper river ... and-release fishing for sturgeon on days that are closed to retention, as do many other stretches of the mainstem Columbia River.

ADF&G Policy Coordinator Dani Evenson said today that the 2025 allocation is “the lowest chinook harvest limit on record” for ...

The Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife (WDFW) has launched an online survey to gather public input on management ...

Thousands of northwesterners were disappointed when they failed to meet up with some hooligans in March. These hooligans ...

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Imagine a six-inch-thick, high-voltage electricity transmission line running underwater on the bottom of the Columbia River, ...

It also damaged the world's greatest salmon runs and disrupted cultures along the river that had existed there for millennia. But Grand Cooley Dam is not the most impactful thing the Columbia has ...

However, anglers have seen smelt at Willow Grove. Will they make it to the Cowlitz by Saturday, the last opening recreational ...

Among updates to the Columbia River Treaty being negotiated were more engagement on decision making with tribal governments and more investment in fish habitat and recovering threatened salmon ...