Bill Smith, of Kingston, NY, has been coming up to the Salmon River for 15 years to fish for steelhead trout. He recently ...

Boise native Jack Hurty leads efforts to restore Idaho's salmon and steelhead by advocating for Lower Snake River dam removal ...

Forecasts for salmon fishing in the Columbia River in 2025 is out. Overall, the news is good. The only exception is the summer Chinook run.

Jeremy FiveCrows, communications director for the Columbia River Inter-Tribal Fish Commission (CRITFC), said 15 to 20 million adult salmon and steelhead returned to the basin historically ...

By contrast the South Umpqua River had only 51 adult spring-run fish return to spawn in 2019. Recent scientific studies show that spring-run fish are genetically distinct from the more abundant ...

What about that fishy taste and smell? Is salmon such a go-to that it's tough to convince anyone to try something different?

While spring, summer and fall chinook fishing is months away, the 2024-25 steelhead fishery is still going strong. Sullivan said the Snake River run that numbered more than 102,000 from July ...

Over the past decade, the Hoh River basin averaged around 1,000 spring-run, the Queets River basin around 500, and the Quinault River basin only around 100 fish. Early return salmon and steelhead in ...

20, including two that have the potential to play a role in the effort to recover salmon and steelhead from the Snake and Columbia rivers. But whether the orders lead to real change for energy ...