And then we had a pretty big salmon fall salmon run predicted that year,” he said. “ We lost upwards of 70,000 adult Chinook that fall . The banks of the river were littered with dead fish.

Runners carry carved wooden salmon as they run down South 6th Street in Klamath Falls, Oregon on their way to the Klamath River's headwaters in Southern Oregon on May 28, 2017 Courtesy of ...

The Umpqua River, along with Smith and North Fork Smith rivers, has special regulations this fall due to low returns of both ...

In areas that are open for retention of coho salmon in the Willamette River basin upstream of Willamette Falls, anglers with a valid 2024 Oregon two-rod validation may fish with two rods including ...

In areas that are open for retention of coho salmon in the Willamette River basin upstream of Willamette Falls, anglers with a valid 2024 Oregon two-rod validation may fish with two rods including ...

In this episode of the Explore Oregon Podcast, host Zach Urness talks about three major stories involving salmon in Oregon. And, he shares a fun song about the fish sent to him by a reader. Urness ...

In this episode of the Explore Oregon Podcast, host Zach Urness goes deep on the record coho salmon runs in the Upper Willamette Basin. Urness talks with Chris Kern, the west region manager for ...

The Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife reported that its fish biologists found a full-run Chinook salmon on Wednesday, in a tributary above the former J.C. Boyle Dam that was removed this summer.

But when hydropower dams were built on the Klamath, which wends from southern Oregon into far northwest California, the river’s ecosystem was upended and salmon were cut off from 420 miles of ...