Oregon officials said the Chinook salmon population would be restored in ten years. With Coquille leadership, they did it in three. This story originally appeared on Underscore Native News. After a ...

Sport salmon fishing on the Columbia River has been extended again, from Oct. 1 to 13, following newly revised run forecasts echoing previous improvements in the upriver chinook salmon run.

PENDLETON — Starting Saturday, Oct. 18, and continuing through Nov. 30, anglers on the Umatilla River will not be allowed to keep chinook salmon from the Highway 730 bridge upriver to Threemile Dam.

ENTERPRISE — Starting Friday, Sept. 19, and continuing through Oct. 31, anglers on the Snake River from Hells Canyon Dam downstream to the Oregon/Washington border will not be allowed to keep any wild ...

LA GRANDE — Anglers will have a chance to try to hook a chinook salmon on Lookingglass Creek north of Elgin after all. Earlier this spring, the Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife announced that ...

KLAMATH FALLS, Ore. — Spencer Creek will close to fishing Sept. 30, a month earlier than usual, to protect fall Chinook salmon that have returned for the first time in more than a century after dam ...

FAIRVIEW, Ore. — For salmon anglers like Kelly Burkhardt, it's the time of year for trying their luck. Last week was busy at Chinook Landing in Fairview, as many people got their lines in the water.

Chinook salmon, pictured here, is Oregon’s official state fish and is of high cultural value to Northwest tribes and high economic value to Oregon’s coastal economies. (Photo courtesy of Pacific ...

PORTLAND, Ore. (KOIN) – A group of Oregon Democratic lawmakers are urging the Trump administration to declare a fishery disaster in the state after a drop in the salmon population. In an April 11 ...

Less than two months after the removal of dams restored a free-flowing Klamath River, salmon have made their way upstream to begin spawning and have been spotted in Oregon for the first time in more ...

The Columbia River will remain open to chinook salmon retention through the end of the year up to the U.S. 395 bridge in Pasco, Washington. Oregon and Washington fish managers met Thursday afternoon ...