Category – Fish and wildlife

Forest fires may be good for salmon habitat.

Scientists estimate that fish-eating birds consume 35 percent of the juvenile Upper Columbia River spring Chinook salmon, an endangered species, as they migrate downriver to the Pacific Ocean each spring.

An avalanche of spring Chinook hit Bonneville Dam in late April and early May, then tapered off into the middle of the month. Bonneville, 146 miles inland from the Pacific Ocean, is the first place on the Columbia River where

In revising the Columbia River Basin Fish and Wildlife Program in 2014, the Council committed to define and develop a long-term maintenance plan and process to ensure that past investments in projects that implement the program remain properly functioning and

An aerial survey by the Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife in February counted more than 6,000 seals and 1,600 sea lions in the Astoria area, according to a report in The Seattle Times.

Columbia River salmon runs should top 2 million fish again in 2015, continuing a trend of record or near-record runs over last decade compared to runs in the 1990s, fish managers reported to the Council this month.

2014 was a record year for salmon in the Columbia River.

Predation by Caspian terns on juvenile salmon and steelhead is a problem in the Columbia River estuary, but that’s not the only place. It’s also a problem in the mid-Columbia area of central Washington, where it's causing the Grant County

The Spokane-based Upper Columbia United Tribes organization (UCUT) is seeking comments on its draft work plan to study the feasibility of reintroducing salmon and steelhead to areas of the upper Columbia River in the United States that are blocked to