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Editor's Note: Fifteen years ago, Puget Sound salmon were listed under the Endangered Species Act. Despite the billions of dollars spent on recovery…
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The U.S. and Canada are looking at renegotiating the Columbia River treaty, which has been in effect since 1964.The treaty put into place a mechanism for…
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A dam break at a central British Columbia mine could threaten salmon fisheries in the Pacific Northwest.Mount Polley is an open-pit copper and gold mine…
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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…
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Hydropower dams built without fish ladders have blocked migratory fish from the upper reaches of the Columbia and Snake Rivers for decades. Tribal leaders…
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State wildlife officers trapped and killed six salmon-chomping sea lions at Bonneville Dam earlier this week.It's part of a renewed campaign against…
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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…
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The Yakama Nation is celebrating the return of sockeye salmon into a lake on the east slope of the Cascade Mountains where they were eliminated decades…
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Washington state Attorney General Bob Ferguson is appealing a federal ruling ordering the state to fix culverts that block salmon passages.Ferguson says…
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The future of food is a subject writer Paul Greenberg has explored extensively in his NYTimes bestselling book, called Four Fish. It’s also something that…