The Lower Granite Dam on the Snake River enables shad and salmon to ascend. While some observers speculate that thriving shad negatively impacts salmon, researchers can find no evidence that such is ...

John Cassinelli, anadromous fish policy manager for the Idaho Department of Fish and Game, told commissioners that about ...

Further studies are forthcoming. New studies may lead to the removal of major US dams — here's what's happening first appeared on The Cool Down.

Recent ocean conditions and a strong El Niño weather pattern in the Pacific in 2024 indicate that Chinook salmon returns to ...

It would also doom to extinction several salmon runs in the Columbia/Snake River system and the southern resident orcas of the Salish Sea. Risch and Newhouse extol the supposed economic and power ...

A public comment hearing will be held Tuesday evening.

But instead it gives short shrift to the only viable alternative for saving salmon and ultimately orcas — removing the four lower Snake River dams. “Instead of taking the one step identified by ...

Marvin Entel’s letter (Tribune, Feb. 16) regarding habitat loss for salmon and steelhead was interesting, but a large part of the story was not mentioned.

The lower Snake River Dams are “run of the river ... over half of the native populations of spring and summer Chinook salmon are now gone. The 32 native populations remaining are in dire ...

Fishery managers have announced significant restrictions on salmon fishing in the Klickitat River in response to a concerning forecast for the 2025 spring Chinook return. The estimated return of ...

The number of salmon returning to the Columbia and Snake rivers this year is expected ... about salmon and steelhead in the Columbia River Basin. “California Current” refers to a cold water ...