In this episode of the Explore Oregon Podcast, host Zach Urness goes deep on the record coho salmon runs in the Upper Willamette Basin. Urness talks with Chris Kern, the west region manager for the ...

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 ...

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.

Since Oregon coast coho were first listed as Threatened under the federal Endangered Species Act in 1998, habitat restoration and careful hatchery and harvest management have helped recover the ...

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 ...

Three adult coho salmon, the first from an effort by the Nez Perce Tribe to re-establish an extinct run, have returned to northeast Oregon's Lostine River. The fish, which were among the more than 500 ...

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 ...

SPALDING — Coho salmon reintroduced by the Nez Perce Tribe are spawning in Lapwai Creek near here, as well as Lolo Creek and tributaries to the South Fork of the Clearwater River. In a gloomy year for ...

To protect the wild coho, commercial fishing off the coast was largely prohibited for both wild and hatchery salmon, which can be distinguished from each other only after they're caught. (Hatchery ...

CANBY, Ore. — It may not look like much to passersby, but Parrott Creek in Canby is an important habitat for steelhead trout. Vital waterways like Parrott Creek and many others are marked out in a ...

The fall salmon season is heading into its final weeks, with the late run of coho driving these last days. Anglers are doing well in some tributaries of the Columbia, but low water has slowed the bite ...