Jim Skaar and Josiah Darr fish the Wilson River for winter steelhead, sending to the fish on to a hatchery where they'll produce future generations for the river.

The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers said it could make hydroelectric dams on Oregon’s Willamette River safe for endangered salmon by building gigantic mechanical traps and hauling baby fish ...

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The salmon that was documented in Oregon ... up the river in the fall after their time at sea. The fall run is the largest on the Klamath and partly fuels California’s commercial fishing industry.

PORTLAND, Ore.— The Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife’s recent count of spring-run Chinook salmon returning to the South Umpqua River showed just 17 wild adult fish detected during snorkel ...