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Willamette Valley Drought Results In Low Federal Reservoirs, Balancing Act For Numerous Water Uses; ‘Worst Year Since 1949’

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Due to ongoing dry conditions at U.S. Army Corps of Engineers dams in Oregon’s Willamette Valley, reservoirs are currently as low as 20 percent full (Cougar Dam on the Mackenzie River) while, overall, the 13 dams in the Corps’ Willamette Valley System stand at 48 percent full, according to a recent virtual public meeting held…

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NOAA Seeks Comments On Renewal Of Snake River Sockeye Hatchery Broodstock Program; Fish On Brink Of Extinction Since 1990s

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Fishing Vessel Helps Free Severely Entangled Humpback Whale Off Oregon Coast; Jaw Permanently Open, Likely Won’t Survive

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This Month in 2006 | OREGON, WASHINGTON TALLY SPRING CHINOOK HARVEST RESULTS

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This Month in 2016 | Conservation Groups File Notice To Sue EPA Over Columbia/Snake Water Temperatures

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This Month in 2021 | Study: Baby Marine Turtles’ Stomachs Packed With Plastic Debris, For Pacific Green Turtles Up To Nearly 1 Percent Body Mass

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California Wants More Information On Southern Resident Killer Whales As It Considers Listing Under State ESA

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Cold Water (44 Degrees) From Dworshak Reservoir On North Fork Clearwater Keeping Lower Snake Cooler For Migrating Salmon

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01. fishing

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Steelhead Hitting The Columbia River In Low Numbers; Deschutes River Closed To Steelhead Angling, Other Rivers May Follow

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Oregon fisheries managers will close the Deschutes River to summer steelhead angling beginning Aug. 15, and other Oregon rivers may follow if the run of steelhead continues to arrive in the Columbia River in low numbers. The state’s Deschutes River Steelhead Management Framework requires that summer steelhead angling shut down if passage of the fish…

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British Columbia Research Shows Anglers’ Landing Nets Leading Cause Of Injuries Linked To Deaths Of Released Coho, Fish Die Days Later

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UM Flathead Lake Biological Station Detects ‘Forever Chemicals’ At All Sampling Stations In Flathead Watershed

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New Idaho State Record For Northern Pike Caught In Lake Pend Oreille

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Want To Get Paid To Fish? Go Chase Walleye, Lake Trout On Idaho’s Lake Pend Oreille As Part Of Angler Incentive Program

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States, Tribes Release Columbia River Basin Salmon Stock Status Report; 2026 Fall Chinook, Coho Return Forecasted Lower Than Last Year

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Angler Lands New State Catch-Release Record For Lake Trout At Idaho’s Payette Lake: 43.25-Inch Fish

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NOAA Seeks Comments On Renewal Of Snake River Sockeye Hatchery Broodstock Program; Fish On Brink Of Extinction Since 1990s

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Snake River fisheries managers are seeking to renew their sockeye salmon hatchery broodstock program designed to support the recovery of the Endangered Species Act-listed fish. NOAA Fisheries is seeking comments on the applications that include a hatchery and genetic management plan and an environmental assessment until Aug. 17. The HGMP describes a hatchery brood stock…

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Cold Water (44 Degrees) From Dworshak Reservoir On North Fork Clearwater Keeping Lower Snake Cooler For Migrating Salmon

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ODFW Says BPA Terminating Funding For Key Hatchery Program, Major Consequences For Commercial, Recreational Fisheries

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Mainstem Columbia River Water Supply Forecast (Dalles Dam) Now At 88 Percent Of Normal, But Dire Conditions Showing For Many Tributaries

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Though Columbia River Treaty On Pause, Additional Flow At McNary Dam With Canadian Water Comes With Supplemental Agreement

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This Month in 2016 | Basin Water Managers Expecting Slightly Below Average Runoff From Now To September

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Feds Reduce Court-Ordered Spill At John Day Dam In Effort To Address Salmon Passage Problems; State, Tribal Salmon Managers Disagree With Operation

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Fishing Vessel Helps Free Severely Entangled Humpback Whale Off Oregon Coast; Jaw Permanently Open, Likely Won’t Survive

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An Oregon team joined by experts from Washington and a local fisherman freed a severely entangled humpback whale about 20 miles off the Oregon Coast on July 26. While the team removed all of the gear from the whale, the entanglement left the young whale’s jaw permanently open, leaving it unable to feed and unlikely…

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This Month in 2006 | OREGON, WASHINGTON TALLY SPRING CHINOOK HARVEST RESULTS

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Groups Files Suit To Get Sunflower Sea Star Listed Under ESA; 90 Percent Decline, Key To Healthy West Coast Kelp Forests

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This Month in 2006 | NEZ PERCE HATCHERY FUNDING RESTS ON ESA ‘CREDITING’ ISSUE

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This Month in 2021 | USGS Study Says Greater Sage-Grouse Populations May Decline By 70 Percent If Horse Populations Unchecked

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British Columbia Research Documents For First Time Bacterial Disease (Skin, Fin Ulcers) Killing Wild Chinook Salmon; Well-Known In Farmed Salmon

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NOAA’s West Coast Gray Whale Estimate Shows Increase, Raises Questions About Assumptions, Methods For Population Estimates

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Bear Butter: Study Maps Important Insect Habitat (Army Cutworm Moths) Drawing Grizzlies To High Mountain Peaks

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Willamette Valley Drought Results In Low Federal Reservoirs, Balancing Act For Numerous Water Uses; ‘Worst Year Since 1949’

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Due to ongoing dry conditions at U.S. Army Corps of Engineers dams in Oregon’s Willamette Valley, reservoirs are currently as low as 20 percent full (Cougar Dam on the Mackenzie River) while, overall, the 13 dams in the Corps’ Willamette Valley System stand at 48 percent full, according to a recent virtual public meeting held…

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This Month in 2016 | Conservation Groups File Notice To Sue EPA Over Columbia/Snake Water Temperatures

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This Month in 2006 | NEZ PERCE HATCHERY FUNDING RESTS ON ESA ‘CREDITING’ ISSUE

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Draft Report On Future Water Supply Says Columbia Basin Groundwater Levels, Including Deep Aquifers, At Risk Of Decline; Prepare For Less Water In 2040s

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This Month in 2021 | ‘Ecomechanical Models’: Researchers Develop More Accurate Way To Predict Impact Of Climate Change On Plants, Animals

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New Montana Study Uses Otoliths To Better Understand Which Streams In Swan Lake Basin Most Important For Bull Trout Recovery

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Single, Dead Invasive Quagga Mussel Found On Oregon Reservoir Shoreline, Monitoring Continues

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This Month in 2021 | FRIDAY (July 2 )UPDATE: Hydro/Fisheries Managers Initiate More Changes At Lower Snake Dams To Cool Water, Aid Endangered Sockeye

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WDFW, Cowlitz Tribe, Others Reintroduce Spring Chinook Salmon Into Upper North Fork Toutle River, First Time Since Mount St. Helens Eruption

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The Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife, in coordination with the Cowlitz Indian Tribe, U.S. Forest Service, and conservation partners, have reintroduced spring Chinook salmon into the upper North Fork Toutle River watershed within the Mount St. Helens National Volcanic Monument for the first time since the 1980 volcanic eruption. In June, WDFW and project…

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This Month in 2016 | Burns Paiute Tribe Malheur River Resident Fish Program Sets The Table For Possible Return Of Salmon

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Tribes Warn ‘Run Sizes Not Large Enough To Support Treaty Rights’ As Harvest Managers Set Fall Chinook Fishing Dates

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This Month in 2016 | After Nearly 100 Years, Salmon Fishing Returns To Upper Malheur River For Burns Paiute Tribe

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Yakama Nation Requests BPA Release $50 Million In Unspent Fish Accords Funds, Supports Hatchery, Habitat Projects

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European Green Crab 2025 Field Season Update: WDFW, Tribes, Co-Managers Set 30,000 Traps This Year, Remove 300,000 Crabs

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With NOAA Funding, Cowlitz Indian Tribe Removes Dam In Washougal River Basin, Restoring Fish Passage, Habitat

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Tribes, Conservation Groups, Industry React To Trump’s Termination Of Columbia Basin Salmon Agreement

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06. science

This Month in 2021 | Study: Baby Marine Turtles’ Stomachs Packed With Plastic Debris, For Pacific Green Turtles Up To Nearly 1 Percent Body Mass

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Plastic pollution has become one of the most pressing threats to marine wildlife. It is estimated that more than 700 marine species, from blue whales to small barnacles, have had interactions with plastics in the oceans. Plastics now make up 80% of all marine debris and can be found everywhere, from surface waters to deep-sea sediments.

Quiet In The Hatchery! WSU Study Shows Hatchery Salmon Raised Amid Noise Less Likely To Return Than Those Raised With Noise Protection

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NOAA Study Cites Recent Marine Heatwaves As Major Factor In Severe Decline Of Yukon River Chinook Salmon Runs

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Study Show Beavers Widespread In Pacific Northwest Estuaries, Tidal Wetlands, May Provide Important Habitat For Salmon

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Science Panel Reviews Progress Of BPA-Funded ‘Aquatic Restoration Partnership’ In John Day River Basin

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Long-Term Data Shows Puget Sound’s Southern Resident Killer Whales Spending Less Time In Inland Waters, Bigg’s Whales Increasing

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El Nino Joins West Coast Marine Heatwave: NOAA Describes 7 Ways Prolonged High Temperatures Impact Fisheries, Marine Life

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This Month in 2021 | WSU Study Shows Greenhouse Gas Emissions From Reservoirs Higher Than Previously Thought

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This Month in 2006 | NEZ PERCE HATCHERY FUNDING RESTS ON ESA ‘CREDITING’ ISSUE

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A July 21 letter from the Bonneville Power Administration’s CEO Steve Wright reiterates the agency’s intent to defer funding for new Nez Perce tribal hatchery facilities while the project’s full biological benefits are weighed in an ongoing court-ordered process.

This Month in 2006 | COUNCIL STAFF AIMS FOR PROJECT RECOMMENDATIONS IN SEPTEMBER

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This Month in 2016 | BPA Selects Javier Fernandez As Chief Financial Officer

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This Month in 2006 | CONGRESSIONAL HEARING FOCUSES ON POWER RATES, FISH COSTS

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This Month in 2016 | As Many As 45 Percent Of Tagged Spring Chinook In Estuary Disappear Before Reaching Bonneville Dam

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This Month in 2021 | FRIDAY (July 2 )UPDATE: Hydro/Fisheries Managers Initiate More Changes At Lower Snake Dams To Cool Water, Aid Endangered Sockeye

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This Month in 2021 | High Temps Force Salmon Managers To Begin Sockeye Trap And Haul Next Week At Lower Granite Dam

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California Wants More Information On Southern Resident Killer Whales As It Considers Listing Under State ESA

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The California Department of Fish and Wildlife is seeking data and public comments on a petition to list the southern resident killer whale under the California Endangered Species Act. The southern resident killer whale is a distinct population segment of killer whale found along the Pacific Coast between southeast Alaska and Point Sur, Calif. Southern…

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This Month in 2006 | NEZ PERCE HATCHERY FUNDING RESTS ON ESA ‘CREDITING’ ISSUE

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Washington U.S. Rep. Introduces Bill To Expand Lethal Sea Lion Removal In Columbia River To Protect Salmon

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Conservation Groups Sue Trump Administration Over Rule Change On Habitat Destruction Under ESA

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This Month in 2006 | COUNCIL STAFF AIMS FOR PROJECT RECOMMENDATIONS IN SEPTEMBER

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NOAA Allocates $123 Million In Fishery Disaster Funds To Alaska, Oregon, California, Squaxin Island Tribe

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NW Power/Conservation Council Approves New Columbia Basin Fish/Wildlife Program, States Split On Summer Spill For Salmon

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