Salmon

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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 have found that a widely used pesticide significantly harms endangered Northwest salmon and steelhead species.

The Pacific Fisheries Management Council is concerned about fall Chinook populations affected by drought in the Klamath and Sacramento rivers.

Although many Alaskan students are familiar with salmon fishing, raising them gives them a new perspective on writing, science, math and art.

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.