Annual steelhead returns in the Snake River are the highest they’ve been since 2017 but still below recovery goals, an Idaho Department of Fish and Game official says. TrendingIdaho meat […] ...

Tribes, feds, Oregon and Washington governors sign agreement at Biden White House on salmon and path toward breaching Snake River dams.

Anglers who catch walleye from the Snake or Salmon rivers are asked to report their catches to Idaho Department of Fish and Game regional wildlife biologist Marika Dobos at marika.dobos@idfg.idaho ...

A 2022 National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration study, wrote that without dam removal and habitat restoration on the Snake River, the likelihood of extinction for 13 salmon and steelhead ...

Since the four Lower Snake River dams were completed, the economic benefits they provide have been in tension with their impact on the salmon and steelhead that hatch above the dams and must return ...

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BOISE — Changes in how dams on the Snake and Columbia rivers are operated are needed to improve migratory conditions for protected runs of Snake River chinook salmon and steelhead, federal ...

An agreement that has been called a roadmap to breaching the four Snake River dams in Eastern Washington was signed in a Biden White House ceremony Friday, with tribal leaders and the governors of ...

Snake River salmon and steelhead by Staff November 6, 2000 January 24, 2024. Click to print (Opens in new window) Print; Click to email a link to a friend (Opens in new window) Email; ...

Salmon and steelhead have steadily declined toward extinction my whole life as a direct result of the completion of the four dams on the lower Snake River in the early 1970s.

Already, much of Columbia River steelhead and salmon fishing was closed Sept. 26 due to low runs. The closure covered the river from Bonneville Dam to the blue bridge in Pasco.

But we now know that the only way to recover wild Snake River salmon and steelhead is to remove the dams. So say scientists at the National Marine Fisheries Service, calling dam-breaching “the ...