Sea lions preying on migrating salmon and steelhead is an ongoing problem in local rivers. The sea lions' appetites are impacting vulnerable fish runs. Now, the Washington Department of Fish and ...

Summer runs of shad, sockeye salmon, and summer steelhead are drawing big crowds below Bonneville Dam. The upstream movement has been okay for sockeye, poor for steelhead, and very good for American ...

Spill, which is now happening at each federal dam along the Columbia-Snake river system that has fish passage, allows out-migrating salmon to dodge the dams’ deadly turbines, increasing their survival ...

Oregon and Washington will reopen spring chinook salmon fishing Friday on the Columbia River below Bonneville Dam. More salmon than expected in counts at the dam allowed approval Wednesday of a two ...

The lower half of a fish ladder at Bonneville Lock & Dam in Cascade Locks remains unchanged as upgrades focus on the upper section. A new $8 million project at the Bonneville Lock & Dam aims to make ...

With the peak of the fall chinook run now past Bonneville Dam, salmon fishing is slowing down on the lower Columbia River mainstem, according to Pat Frazier, the Department of Fish and Wildlife's ...

Buoyed by a stronger spring chinook salmon run than expected, managers in Oregon and Washington met Tuesday afternoon and extended sport fishing well into June both below and above Bonneville Dam.

The Columbia River pours through the Bonneville Dam spillway on Thursday, Aug. 22, 2024, at Bonneville Dam. (Taylor Balkom/The Columbian) At 12 this morning, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers opened ...