The Fall-run Chinook salmon is much lower this year than ... Creek are too young and predominantly male. This year, 60% of the salmon are 2 years old and ... 2,500 female chinook salmon, ...

KENWOOD — A female Chinook salmon swam steadily against the current in a shallow section of Sonoma Creek as several male fish splashed about behind her, jockeying for position, waiting for her ...

Under the terms of a settlement agreement, there could soon be new federal protections for the Chinook, the largest of all ...

A giant female Chinook salmon flips on her side in the shallow water and wriggles wildly, using her tail to carve out a nest in the riverbed as her body glistens in the sunlight. In another moment ...

Chinook salmon are facing unprecedented challenges as their once-thriving populations struggle to survive. A new study published in the journal Ecosphere suggests that decades of human activities, ...

Biologists say the quadrupled number of redds is exciting considering they have only released 37 adult female salmon this year to breed in the river below Friant Dam. There are other signs that ...

The Center for Biological Diversity and allies today secured court-ordered deadlines requiring the National Marine Fisheries Service to determine whether spring-run Chinook salmon in Oregon, ...

Big female chinook salmon captured from Fort Peck Reservoir this fall by Fish, Wildlife & Parks' fisheries staff produced an average of 4,708 eggs per female, the highest number ever recorded.

A closer look at same fall-run Chinook Salmon seen on Oct. 16, 2024, in a tributary of the Klamath River after removal of the dams marking the first fish to return since 1916.