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

To further complicate spawning, dams also block salmon from historic habitat and alter water flow. “The average female Chinook salmon can move two cubic yards of gravel while she’s making her nest in ...

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 ...

The Umpqua River, along with Smith and North Fork Smith rivers, has special regulations this fall due to low returns of both ...

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, ...

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 ...

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. (Photo by Jacob ...

The California Department of Fish and Wildlife announced the opener this week, with a daily bag limit of two Chinook salmon per day.

Nearly 20,000 Chinook salmon were caught inadvertently as bycatch in the pollock fishery in the Gulf of Alaska, shutting it down early and sparking outrage among orca scientists and wild salmon ...

This is the first time in decades Chinook salmon have been spotted in their native spawning grounds on the North Yuba River.

The pace of salmon recovery has been far too slow, endangering the whole chain of life that depends upon it, writes Jordan Rash.

Chinook salmon are the largest, fattiest salmon, and the preferred prey of endangered southern resident orcas that frequent the Salish Sea.