A Seattle law firm, leading a state-funded study, tentatively recommends Washington use eminent domain to take farmland if voluntary conservation programs fail to meet goals for enlarging riparian ...

Anglers have more time to go after hatchery steelhead on Salmon Creek. The Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife set the season beginning Sunday (March 16) through May 23. The WDFW said in a ...

A sharp spike in summer steelhead numbers over Bonneville Dam allowed Oregon and Washington to end an August ban on keeping hatchery fish throughout the lower Columbia River. From Friday through the ...

Depending on the river, salmon spawning season is either just getting underway or will soon. Here's where — and when — to go.

FILE - Coho salmon in Eagle Creek, a tributary of the Columbia River, in a 2009 file photo provided by the Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife. Rick Swart / Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife ...

A record-breaking sockeye run highlighted an encouraging year for salmon and steelhead returning to the Columbia with thousands more still expected to arrive this fall. Those gains didn’t necessarily ...

Fat spring Chinook fill a fish box in April of 2021. Anglers can fish the entire main stem Columbia this year, with no bubble closure at the mouth of the Cowlitz River. (Photo courtesy of Bill Monroe ...