Northwest Power Supply Should Be Adequate Through 2021
- June 09, 2017
- Carol Winkel
Supply should be adequate through 2020, but the region will need to add new capacity by 2021 to maintain adequacy.
Category – Fish and wildlife
The Colville Tribes celebrate the arrival of the first salmon
- May 26, 2017
- Laura Robinson
On May 19 the Colville Tribes hosted their annual First Salmon Ceremony at the Chief Joseph Hatchery, where the ceremony has been held since 2013.
U.S. Court Of Appeals rules for the Council in lawsuit over the 2014 Fish and Wildlife Program
- May 23, 2017
- John Harrison
On July 19, a three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit issued a memorandum opinion rejecting all arguments made by petitioner Northwest Resource Information Center (NRIC) against the Council's decision to approve the 2014 Columbia
To Help Fish, You Need to Know Where They Are
- April 17, 2017
- Mark Walker
At the Council’s April meeting, research fisheries biologists Michael Young and Dan Isaak from the USDA Forest Service shared first-year results from an environmental DNA inventory of bull trout, the target of the most extensive effort to date to map
Fish Head Bounty
- March 24, 2017
- John Harrison
Northern pike, a voracious predator, are continuing to invade Lake Roosevelt, imperiling other fish species. There is a $10 per fish bounty to get them out of the lake.
Fish Forecast: 'Not Very Good'
- March 15, 2017
- John Harrison
2017 is predicted to be another poor year for Columbia River salmon and steelhead runs, but they've been worse in the past.
Water for Fish, Farms, and People
- March 14, 2017
- John Harrison
Water transactions are helping fish and boosting local economies across the West, and the Columbia River Basin provides an example of success.
Fish Tools
- March 13, 2017
- John Harrison
The Council and its partners are developing online information tools to help show progress toward recovery goals for fish in the Columbia River Basin.
Sea Lion Fish Feast
- March 01, 2017
- John Harrison
The number of salmon and steelhead consumed by sea lions at Bonneville Dam last year, more than 9,500 fish, was the second-largest since observations and monitoring began in 2002, according to a report by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers. During their annual spring foray into the Columbia River, sea lions also killed lamprey and sturgeon.
Lamprey Rescue
- February 16, 2017
- John Harrison
A 400-million-year-old species, Pacific lamprey, has cultural and environmental significance in the Columbia River Basin, where upriver populations have declined over time, in some rivers to zero. But research, artificial propagation, and dam-passage improvements for adult lamprey show promise of rebuilding the species.
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