On the March 15 flight count on the lower Columbia River, Rocky Point/Tongue Point line upstream to Bonneville Dam there were 32 salmonid boats and 15 Washington bank rods tallied between Warrior Rock ...

Recent ocean conditions and a strong El Niño weather pattern in the Pacific in 2024 indicate that Chinook salmon returns to ...

Prior to the influx of colonial settlers in the mid-19th century and the eventual development of large dams blocking fish passageway along the river, the Columbia River Basin was teeming with ...

That’s not the case today. The Columbia River Basin is still home to some of the richest wild salmon spawning grounds in the world, but many species of the fish are in crisis. The salmon in this ...

and to allow them to be collected for a trap and haul program by the Columbia River Inter-Tribal Fish Commission, which aims to restore lamprey populations in Columbia River Basin tributaries upriver.

The nations were trying to finalize updates to the 61-year-old Columbia River Treaty governing shared, cross-border water and ...

The U.S. has paused negotiations with Canada on a keystone management plan that governs flood control, water supply and ...

Smelt dippers will return to the banks of the Cowlitz River as the Washington state Department of Fish and Wildlife has approved recreational fisheries for Wednesday, March 12, and Saturday, March 15.

Larry Mattson is the new director of the Office of the Columbia River. Mattson took over as the new director of the office, ...

Earlier this year, the Northwest Power and Conservation Council announced it had fallen more than halfway short of its longtime goal of 5 million fish returning to the Columbia River Basin each year.

Among updates to the Columbia River Treaty being negotiated were more engagement on decision making with tribal governments and more investment in fish habitat and recovering threatened salmon ...