It’s been a busy week for salmon managers in Oregon and Washington and something of a perfect storm for their constituents.

Coho salmon are returning in record numbers and spreading into parts of the Upper Willamette Basin they’ve never historically been seen. After a record number of the ocean-going fish entered the river ...

September’s coho rodeo off the central Oregon coast just got rowdy for a little longer. The preseason quota for an any-coho season, 25,000 legal-sized fish, has been boosted to 30,700. Beginning Sept.

Coho returns to the Columbia River have been way above the projection, with the fish pushing into areas where they are rarely seen, and delighting anglers. With the earlier returning “A” run busting ...

MARQUETTE, Mich. (WJMN) — Anglers have been spotted out on the water in numbers, according to the Department of Natural Resources. Unfortunately, the same cannot be said about coho salmon. In their ...

The number of coho salmon returning to the Upper Willamette Basin smashed records for the second year in a row, but it wasn't necessarily a bonanza for anglers. A total of 53,169 adult coho passed the ...

The Pacific Fisheries Management Council (PFMC) finalized the 2025 ocean salmon seasons including ocean waters off Oregon Recently. Recommended salmon seasons are not official until final approval by ...

Coho salmon spawning on the Salmon River in northwest Oregon (BLM photo) For the first time in 60 years threatened coho salmon have returned to the Upper Klamath River Basin, the California Department ...

PORTLAND, Ore. (CN) — While a controversial southern Oregon dam may delay the migration of a threatened species of salmon, the impact isn’t significant enough to violate federal environmental laws, a ...