With Few Snake River Sockeye Making It To Sawtooth Basin, Endangered Fish Hang On With Captive Breeding, Outplanting Adults Into Lakes

States Open Lower River To Fall Chinook Retention; Worst Ever Basin Steelhead Returns Extend Deschutes Angling Closure

USFWS Says American Bumble Bee, Found Across Most Of U.S., May Warrant ESA Listing; Climate Change, Pesticides, Habitat Loss

Study Analyzes Non-Native Warmwater Fish Consumption Of Juvenile Salmon In Reservoirs; Walleye Predation Much Higher Than Native Pikeminnow

Harvest Managers Get Upgraded Run Forecasts, Passage Numbers, Catch And Effort Stats; B-Index Steelhead Prospects Improve, Coho Reduced

Though Poor Steelhead Returns Continue, Good Fall Chinook, Coho Runs Have Harvest Managers Approving More Recreational, Commercial Fishing

Yakama Nation’s Translocation Of Pacific Lamprey From Bonneville Dam, Along With Hatchery Outplantings, Showing Results In Yakima River Basin

New Rule: If Chinook Numbers Drop Under 966,000 Off NW Coast, Fishing Reduced To Provide More Food For Endangered Orcas

Grim Returns Prompt WDFW To Issue Steelhead Fishing Restrictions On Snake River, Tributaries; ‘Numbers Below What Anyone Expected’

States Shut Down Most Of Mainstem Columbia River Downstream Of Bonneville Dam To All Salmon Fishing

State Fish/Wildlife Commissions Briefed On In-Season Efforts To Protect ESA-Listed Steelhead During Historically Low Return

Due To Impacts To An ESA-Listed Stock, Harvest Managers Close Buoy 10 Fishery To Chinook Retention; Coho Fishing Continues

More Bad News For Columbia River Basin Steelhead; A-Run Forecast Plummets 60 Percent, Worst On Record

Warm Water Hitting Columbia/Snake River Sockeye With Increased Disease, Slower Migration, Higher Mortality; 626 Fish To Lower Granite Dam

Steelhead Passage Through Warm River Perilously Low, 20 Percent Of Average At Bonneville Dam; Groups Urge Action To Aid Fish

Research: When Nearby Boats Have Navigational Sonar Turned On, Travel Fast, Killer Whales Struggle To Capture Prey

EPA Issues Salish Sea Health Report With 10 Indicators; Chinook (Declining), Killer Whales (Declining), Water Quality (Declining)

USGS Study Says Greater Sage-Grouse Populations May Decline By 70 Percent If Horse Populations Unchecked

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