ODFW Deploying Large Nets On Wallowa Lake To Monitor Fish Populations, Assess Invasive Lake Trout Impacts
March 31st, 2025
This spring, Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife staff deployed large nets in northeast Oregon’s Wallowa Lake to monitor fish population trends and assess the impact of lake trout on other species.
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ODFW Studies Hatchery Economic Costs, Benefits; Trout Stocking The Highest Benefit, Summer Steelhead Not So Much
March 15th, 2025
An economic study of its fish hatcheries that was funded over the past year by the Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife found that trout are by far the least expensive fish to produce at less than $10 per fish harvested, while summer steelhead costs the state nearly $500 per fish harvested, according to a presentation by ODFW before the Oregon Fish and Wildlife Commission in February.
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Wild Vs. Hatchery: Court Rules Willamette Hatchery Summer Steelhead Harm Wild Winter Steelhead, Seeks Remedies
February 7th, 2025
A federal judge in Oregon has ruled that releasing hatchery-raised, non-native summer steelhead into the North and South Santiam rivers in the Willamette River system harms the river’s wild winter steelhead and violates the federal Endangered Species Act.
States Set 2025 Columbia River Sturgeon Retention Seasons; Expect High Effort, Short Seasons
November 18th, 2024
Oregon and Washington fishery managers set dates and harvest guidelines for recreational white sturgeon retention in pools backed up behind Bonneville, The Dalles and John Day dams.
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Oregon Issues For Comment Draft Priority List Of 605 Most Critical Manmade Barriers To Fish Passage, Climate Change Used For Rankings
November 18th, 2024
The Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife has developed an update to the Statewide Fish Passage Barrier Priority List, which is revised every five years.
First Salmon Since 1912 Spotted In Oregon’s Klamath Basin Months After Dam Removal
October 18th, 2024
On October 16, a fall-run Chinook salmon was identified by Oregon Department Fish and Wildlife fish biologists in a tributary to the Klamath River above the former J.C. Boyle Dam, becoming the first anadromous fish to return to the Klamath Basin in Oregon since 1912 when the first of four hydroelectric dams was constructed, blocking migration.
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Conservation Groups Settle Lawsuit With WDFW Over Lower Columbia River Hatcheries, Litigation Continues With NOAA, ODFW
September 28th, 2024
A lawsuit contending that lower Columbia River hatcheries downstream of Bonneville Dam are a threat to wild salmon and steelhead listed under the federal Endangered Species Act was settled in part last week.
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Chinook, Steelhead Return Forecasts Rise Again While Coho Booming; Coho, Steelhead Passage At Willamette Falls Way Up
September 27th, 2024
Oregon and Washington opened the entire mainstem Columbia River to fall Chinook and coho salmon fishing from Buoy 10 to the Oregon and Washington state border last week. The change by the two-state Columbia River Compact came at its Sept. 18 hearing and was based on an increase in expected fall Chinook returns, as well as higher than average returns of coho.
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Oregon Launches Pilot Projects To Estimate Anglers’ Salmon, Steelhead Catch; There’s An App For That
September 18th, 2024
Creel surveys (where state fish biologists ask for and record information about anglers’ catches) provide critical information for managing many fisheries but can be expensive and labor-intensive.