Spring-run Chinook salmon in California’s Central Valley were once the backbone of California’s commercial salmon fishery, but are now a threatened species that remain in a few tributaries of ...

The young spring-run Chinook salmon are part of a pilot project ... they’re being trapped below the dams and forced to ride out the Central Valley’s scorching-hot summer months at lower ...

Recreational salmon fishing will be allowed in California for only brief windows of time this spring, an interstate fisheries ...

Spring-run Chinook salmon are also a preferred and primary food for Southern Resident orcas, which are themselves listed as endangered, having a population of only 73 individuals. Diminishing salmon ...

Regulators have voted to ban commercial fishing for Chinook salmon in California for an unprecedented third straight year ...

Facing the continued collapse of Chinook salmon, officials today ... But in 2024, just 99,274 fall-run Chinook — the most commercially viable of the Central Valley’s four subpopulations ...

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PORTLAND, Ore.— The Center for Biological Diversity and Pacific Rivers filed a petition today to protect Washington coast spring-run Chinook salmon under the federal Endangered Species Act. The ...