While it’s an unprecedented third year in a row for no commercially caught salmon, brief windows will be allowed for sports ...

Rachel Hager, a spokeswoman for NOAA Fisheries, said that recent ocean conditions and a strong El Niño weather pattern in the Pacific in 2024 indicate that Chinook salmon returns to the Columbia ...

Southeast Alaska fishermen discovered Tuesday that harvest limits for chinook salmon in 2025 will be almost 40% less than ...

Spring-run Chinook salmon are also a preferred and primary food for Southern Resident orcas, which are themselves listed as endangered, having a population of only 73 individuals. Diminishing salmon ...

PORTLAND, Ore.— The Center for Biological Diversity and Pacific Rivers filed a petition today to protect Washington coast spring-run Chinook salmon under the federal Endangered Species Act. The ...