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How will salmon adapt after Klamath dams removed? Scientists are trying to find out
For more than a century, four hydroelectric dams along the Oregon-California border have cut off habitat to fish swimming up the Klamath River from the ocean. Now, researchers are in the midst of a project to learn how fish will use this ecosystem once the dams are removed.

This year’s salmon run is a celebration along the Klamath River
Twenty years ago, tribal youth founded the Salmon Run to call for the removal of four dams along the Klamath River. This year’s run will coincide with work to demolish them.
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Ruling might cancel Southeast Alaska commercial king salmon season
A ruling from a U.S. judge in Seattle could effectively shut down commercial king salmon trolling in Southeast Alaska — a valuable industry that supports some 1,500 fishermen — after a conservation group challenged the harvest as a threat to protected fish and the endangered killer whales that eat them.

US panel closes Chinook salmon ocean fishing for much of West Coast
A federal regulatory group has voted to officially close Chinook salmon fishing season along much of the West Coast after near-record low numbers of the fish returned to California’s rivers in 2022.
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Potential closure of fall-run ocean Chinook season off Oregon coast affects tribes, fishermen
The Pacific Marine Fisheries Council is considering three plans for the summer ocean salmon season, none of which would allow Chinook fishing until September for much of Oregon coast.
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Fall-run ocean Chinook fishing season likely to be canceled for much of Oregon
We'll hear about the potential closure of Oregon's ocean Chinook salmon season from a commercial fisherman and the fisheries director of the Yurok Tribe.

Federal researchers say two widely used pesticides harm many endangered fish species
Federal researchers have found that a widely used pesticide significantly harms endangered Northwest salmon and steelhead species.

Most of Oregon’s ocean fall-run chinook fishing season could be canceled
The Pacific Fisheries Management Council is concerned about fall Chinook populations affected by drought in the Klamath and Sacramento rivers.

Students in Alaska learn lessons on climate change, pollution through raising salmon
Although many Alaskan students are familiar with salmon fishing, raising them gives them a new perspective on writing, science, math and art.

Pacific salmon seem to be getting smaller. Here’s what that might mean for the future
OPB’s Paul Marshall speaks with science and nature writer Miranda Weiss. Weiss traveled to Alaska, snorkeled in a salmon stream and talked to scientists and fishermen about why the fish might be getting smaller, and what impacts that will have in the Pacific Northwest.