A recent NOAA report anticipates salmon returns above the 10-year average, but that's likely an outlier when ocean conditions ...

Recreational salmon fishing will be allowed in California for only brief windows of time this spring, an interstate fisheries ...

(CN) – A staggering number of Chinook salmon are returning to a California river that hasn’t sustained salmon for decades due to agricultural and urban demands, giving biologists hope that threatened ...

Chinook salmon have been observed there since 2014, but were all thought to be hatchery strays; the new research shows some salmon returning to Putah Creek to spawn were also born there ...

Spring-run Chinook, who are distinct from fall-run salmon, return in the spring from the ocean to freshwater rivers, staying for many months in deep pools until fall to spawn. “Spring-run Chinook are ...

Spring-run Chinook salmon enter coastal rivers from the ocean in the spring and migrate upstream as they mature, holding in deep pools in rivers through the summer, and spawning in early fall in the ...

The Center, Native Fish Society and Umpqua Watersheds petitioned the NMFS in August 2022 to protect Oregon Coast Chinook salmon under the ... in deep pools until they spawn in the fall.