Columbia Basin Bulletin https://validator.w3.org/feed/docs/rss2.html Single, Dead Invasive Quagga Mussel Found On Oregon Reservoir Shoreline, Monitoring Continues home Terms & Conditions BPA Says Off-Channel Hatchery Salmon Program Not Meeting Agency Goals, Funding Halt Puts 7 Million Chinook, Coho In Production At Risk Washington State Formally Bans Net Pen Aquaculture Seven Years After Net Pen Collapse Released Atlantic Salmon Into Puget Sound NOAA Seeks Comments On Renewal Of Snake River Sockeye Hatchery Broodstock Program; Fish On Brink Of Extinction Since 1990s Analysis Of Snake River Sockeye Run Breaks Down Fish Trapped For Broodstock, Or Released In Sawtooths, Or Swam Entire Journey Groundwater Pumping Can Reduce Streamflow For Salmon; Study Looks At How Cannabis Farming In California Dries Up Streams In Summer Trump Administration Proposes Throwing Out Roadless Area Rule For National Forests, In PNW Key Habitat For Salmon, Steelhead Washington State’s Only Coal Power Plant Shifting To Natural Gas By 2028, Will Serve As Power Backup For Region University Of British Columbia Study Details Why Illegal Industrial Ocean Fishing So Hard To Stop: Subsidies, Fragmented Enforcement American Meteorological Society’s State Of Climate Report Shows Greenhouse Gas, Ocean Levels, Ocean Heat Hit Record Levels In 2025 Bonneville Power Says Forecast For End-Of-Year Net Revenues Declined Since May, Now Expects To Be $49 Million Below Target footer California Wants More Information On Southern Resident Killer Whales As It Considers Listing Under State ESA Steelhead Hitting The Columbia River In Low Numbers; Deschutes River Closed To Steelhead Angling, Other Rivers May Follow Fishing Vessel Helps Free Severely Entangled Humpback Whale Off Oregon Coast; Jaw Permanently Open, Likely Won’t Survive This Month in 2006 | OREGON, WASHINGTON TALLY SPRING CHINOOK HARVEST RESULTS This Month in 2016 | Conservation Groups File Notice To Sue EPA Over Columbia/Snake Water Temperatures This Month in 2021 | Study: Baby Marine Turtles’ Stomachs Packed With Plastic Debris, For Pacific Green Turtles Up To Nearly 1 Percent Body Mass British Columbia Research Shows Anglers’ Landing Nets Leading Cause Of Injuries Linked To Deaths Of Released Coho, Fish Die Days Later Willamette Valley Drought Results In Low Federal Reservoirs, Balancing Act For Numerous Water Uses; ‘Worst Year Since 1949’ NOAA’s Northwest Fisheries Science Center Looking For Different Ways To Meet Mission After Trump Administration Staff Cuts WDFW, Cowlitz Tribe, Others Reintroduce Spring Chinook Salmon Into Upper North Fork Toutle River, First Time Since Mount St. Helens Eruption Cold Water (44 Degrees) From Dworshak Reservoir On North Fork Clearwater Keeping Lower Snake Cooler For Migrating Salmon Murkowski Introduces ‘Fisheries Science Modernization Act’ Allowing NOAA Fisheries To Incorporate E-DNA Into Science Programs, Stock Assessments Groups Files Suit To Get Sunflower Sea Star Listed Under ESA; 90 Percent Decline, Key To Healthy West Coast Kelp Forests Council Draft Power Plan Says NW Federal Power Demand To Grow 50-100 Percent In 20 Years, Partly Driven Near-Term By New Data Centers This Month in 2006 | NEZ PERCE HATCHERY FUNDING RESTS ON ESA ‘CREDITING’ ISSUE This Month in 2016 | Burns Paiute Tribe Malheur River Resident Fish Program Sets The Table For Possible Return Of Salmon This Month in 2021 | USGS Study Says Greater Sage-Grouse Populations May Decline By 70 Percent If Horse Populations Unchecked British Columbia Research Documents For First Time Bacterial Disease (Skin, Fin Ulcers) Killing Wild Chinook Salmon; Well-Known In Farmed Salmon Draft Report On Future Water Supply Says Columbia Basin Groundwater Levels, Including Deep Aquifers, At Risk Of Decline; Prepare For Less Water In 2040s Tribes Warn ‘Run Sizes Not Large Enough To Support Treaty Rights’ As Harvest Managers Set Fall Chinook Fishing Dates Washington U.S. Rep. Introduces Bill To Expand Lethal Sea Lion Removal In Columbia River To Protect Salmon NOAA’s West Coast Gray Whale Estimate Shows Increase, Raises Questions About Assumptions, Methods For Population Estimates Conservation Groups Sue Trump Administration Over Rule Change On Habitat Destruction Under ESA Bear Butter: Study Maps Important Insect Habitat (Army Cutworm Moths) Drawing Grizzlies To High Mountain Peaks UM Flathead Lake Biological Station Detects ‘Forever Chemicals’ At All Sampling Stations In Flathead Watershed USFWs Says Protections May Be Warranted For Cascade Red Fox, Three Fish In Goose Lake (OR-CA Border) This Month in 2006 | COUNCIL STAFF AIMS FOR PROJECT RECOMMENDATIONS IN SEPTEMBER This Month in 2016 | BPA Selects Javier Fernandez As Chief Financial Officer This Month in 2021 | ‘Ecomechanical Models’: Researchers Develop More Accurate Way To Predict Impact Of Climate Change On Plants, Animals Angler Lands New State Catch-Release Record For Lake Trout At Idaho’s Payette Lake: 43.25-Inch Fish NOAA Allocates $123 Million In Fishery Disaster Funds To Alaska, Oregon, California, Squaxin Island Tribe New Idaho State Record For Northern Pike Caught In Lake Pend Oreille Want To Get Paid To Fish? Go Chase Walleye, Lake Trout On Idaho’s Lake Pend Oreille As Part Of Angler Incentive Program States, Tribes Release Columbia River Basin Salmon Stock Status Report; 2026 Fall Chinook, Coho Return Forecasted Lower Than Last Year Montana Wolf Numbers Decline, Harvest Quota Proposed At 250, Down From 450 Last Year