ELK CITY — The Nez Perce tribe is taking advantage of overproduction at the Clearwater Hatchery to seed some local streams with spring chinook redds — spawning beds or nests. Members of the tribe’s ...

The States held a hearing on Wednesday, May 7, 2025, to set additional dates for the recreational spring Chinook fisheries on the Columbia River. Please see the fishing regulation update page for ...

Washington and Oregon officials say they will wait to decide whether to reopen spring chinook salmon fishing in the lower Columbia River despite anglers having about 40 percent of their early-season ...

Anglers net a spring chinook while fishing near Davis Bar on the Columbia River the last Saturday of the 2010 season. For the first time in years, chinook salmon fishing could be allowed in the ...

Spring chinook salmon fishing is heating up in the mid-Columbia at a couple popular fishing holes. In fact, right now, (if you are reading this during daylight hours) there are approximately 139 boats ...

Starting Wednesday, the catch limit for spring chinook salmon will increase to two adult fish per day for Columbia River anglers fishing from the estuary to a point 300 miles upstream. With two weeks ...

In this weekend’s North Dakota Outdoors, Mike Anderson takes us to Lake Sakakawea, where fisheries crews and the Garrison Dam National Fish Hatchery are spawning salmon.

More than 1.2 million tiny juvenile chinook died at the Rapid River Hatchery earlier this month, a loss that could be felt by ...

Press release Montana Fish, Wildlife & Parks Fort Peck fisheries and hatchery staff wrapped up the annual Chinook salmon egg-taking efforts last week. A total of 895,131 Chinook eggs were collected, ...