fish hatchery

Two hatchery programs will close and a third will release fewer fish in 2025.

Grants totaling $65,000 from Centralia's coal transition fund were used to upgrade a high school’s fish hatchery program.

For over a century, four hydroelectric dams along the Oregon-California border have cut off habitat to fish swimming up the Klamath River from the ocean. Now, researchers are in the midst of a project to learn how fish will use this ecosystem once the dams are removed.

The summer’s early snowmelt, record temperatures and drought in the Northwest killed young hatchery fish and adult fish returning to spawn. And federal...

This summer’s extreme drought is becoming increasingly deadly for fish in the northwest.The state department of Fish and Wildlife had already lost about…

For the first time in 20 years, the Wenatchee River in eastern Washington has opened for spring Chinook salmon fishing.Wildlife officials say it’s a sign…

Washington state has banned hatchery-raised steelhead from three tributaries of the Upper Columbia River basin. The aim of these so-called "gene banks" is…

People on the West Coast have counted on fish hatcheries for more than a century to help rebuild populations of salmon and steelhead and bring them to a…