As salmon and steelhead swim upstream, they’re now facing one more challenge in fish ladders. It’s a non-native fish competing for space: the American shad. At Lower Granite Dam on the Lower Snake ...

Leaping over small man-made jumps and swimming determinedly upstream in Alameda Creek, a small group of bright red chinook salmon are back from the Pacific Ocean and ready to spawn. Twenty miles ...

The barrier removal project reconnects 20+ miles of stream and restores historic migration routes Chinook salmon have been spotted in an upper stretch of Alameda Creek, the largest local tributary to ...

BONNEVILLE DAM — The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers is gutting and rebuilding a large section of Bonneville Dam’s fish ladder to make it easier for Pacific lamprey to pass the dam as they return from ...

As soon as it rains, coho salmon likely will swim up a small creek to a spawning ground in the west Sonoma County hills that has been impassable to the species for decades. When they come to the ...

BONNEVILLE DAM, Columbia River, Wash. — There is a new king of the Columbia. Each spring, a chrome tide of fish native to the East Coast floods the Northwest’s mightiest river by the millions. Shad, ...

A B.C. conservation group says it is concerned salmon returns will continue to decline as the federal government cuts funding for local habitat restoration workers.

For years, Seattle City Light insisted its hydroelectric dams on the Skagit River were not harming salmon.

The lower half of a fish ladder at Bonneville Lock & Dam in Cascade Locks remains unchanged as upgrades focus on the upper section. A new $8 million project at the Bonneville Lock & Dam aims to make ...

Male coho salmon hang out in Lapwai Creek on Thursday as they wait for females to spawn with. About 18,300 adult coho returning from the Pacific Ocean have passed Lower Granite Dam on the Snake River ...