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

First Sockeye Returns To Sawtooth Basin, Since 2015 Average Annual Return To Basin 221 Fish; 164 Trucked This Year From Lower Granite To Hatchery

Once Grim 2025 Forecasted Steelhead Return To Columbia River Gets A Boost; Based On Dam Passage Biologists Nearly Triple Expected Run Size

Joint State Report On 2024 Columbia River Fall Fisheries Shows Harvest, Angler Effort Among Best In Past 45 Years

Groups File Lawsuit Contending Steelhead Net Pen Aquaculture In Upper Columbia Polluting River, Violating Clean Water Permits

Summer To Fall Fishing On Columbia: Fall Chinook Forecasted Nice Return, Not So Much Sockeye, Steelhead

‘Sleeping Giant Awakening’: Ocean Warming Causing Higher Concentrations Of Algal Toxins In Arctic Food Webs

Oregon State Researchers Show How 1995 Yellowstone Wolf Reintroduction Prompting Aspen Tree Recovery; Increased Bison New Constraint

Relocated Oregon Wolves Part Of Colorado Reintroduction; Three New Packs, New Pups Confirmed

Army Corps, Bureau Of Reclamation Withdraw Efforts To Complete Supplemental EIS On Hydro Impacts To Salmon, Steelhead

Anchovy Boom In Ocean Leading To Thiamine Deficiencies In Pacific Salmon, Fish Swimming Upside Down

Improved Return Forecast Allows A Few Days Of Summer Chinook Fishing, Oregon Adopts Regs To Protect Steelhead

Will Marbled Murrelet Go Extinct In Washington? WDFW Seeks Comment On Draft Status Review

Second Pacific Lamprey Restoration Plan: Funding, Staffing, Progress ‘Unacceptably’ Slow, ‘We Are Frustrated’

Council Takes Comments On Recommendations For New BPA-Funded Basin F/W Program; Nearly $300 Million For 300 Projects

NOAA: Gray Whale Population Migrating Along West Coast Continues To Decline, Lowest Since 1970s

‘The Risk Is Quite Staggering’: Invasive Mussel Threat Spurs States To Create Near-Term Action Plan

Washington Salmon Recovery Report: Of 14 Salmon/Steelhead Species ESA-Listed Since 1990s, Eight Still Face Extinction

New WDFW Study Shows Links Between Changing Ocean Conditions, Declining Survival Of Coastal Winter Steelhead

Flow Augmentation From Montana’s Libby Dam For ESA-Listed Kootenai River White Sturgeon Begins

More Lower Columbia Spring Chinook Fishing; Summer/Fall Seasons Set With Low Summer Chinook, Steelhead Numbers

Tribes’ Habitat Efforts In Progress To Maintain, Improve Cold Water Refuges For Columbia River Salmon Upstream Bonneville Dam 

Lawsuit Seeks Quicker Action On NOAA Pending Determination Whether Alaska Chinook Salmon Warrant ESA-Listing

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