syracuse.com

Salmon River fishing guide shares secrets of success at ‘world-class fishery’

My fishing guide, Shiloh Patterson, vividly remembers the first time he hooked a king salmon back in 1997. The fight lasted only 10 seconds before his line snapped, but it was all he could talk about ...
Los Angeles Times

As salmon populations struggle, California bans fishing on rivers for a second year

California regulators have decided to ban fishing for chinook salmon on the state’s rivers for a second year in a row, in effort to help the species recover from major population declines. The ...
recordnet

California river salmon fishing season closed for second year due to dramatic declines

July 16 has been, for many years, the day that Chinook salmon fishing opens to recreational anglers on the Sacramento, American, Feather and Mokelumne rivers. One of the most popular salmon fishing ...

Salmon fishing banned from Hampshire’s River Test

Salmon fishing on the River Test has been banned for the first time because of overfishing. A week after salmon fishing season began on the chalk-stream river, its managers decide ...
CU Boulder News & Events

As salmon disappear in warming rivers, Indigenous communities face an uncertain future

For millennia, Indigenous people living in Alaska and Canada’s Yukon territory have relied on Chinook salmon. The large, fatty fish provide essential nutrients for Arctic living and have influenced ...
KGW8

'I did the crime': Salmon fishing on the Columbia River means following the rules or risking penalty

PORTLAND, Ore. — Known for its diverse runs of salmon, the Columbia River draws thousands of anglers to test their luck each year. But with salmon runs nowhere near what they once were, fishing is ...
NBC Bay Area

Salmon make historic trek past recently removed Klamath River dams

Crystal Robinson remembers the call from her team reporting an adult spawning chinook salmon spotted in a creek leading to the Klamath River, which was the subject of the recent removal of four ...

Seattle spent years misleading the public about Skagit River salmon. Now it will pay $1 billion for fish passage

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

Chinook salmon fishing to return to these three Sacramento-area rivers

California will reopen limited Chinook salmon fishing on three Sacramento-area rivers. New regulations take effect in mid-July on the Mokelumne, Feather and American rivers. Salmon population recovery ...
KGW8

Chinook salmon seen passing upper Klamath River dam for the first time since lower dams removed

KLAMATH FALLS, Ore. — Video captured a Chinook salmon successfully summiting the fish ladder at an upper Klamath River dam this week, according to the Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife — the ...
Statesman Journal

Chinook salmon passes through key Klamath River fish ladder as fish repopulate river

A salmon passed through the fish ladder of a key dam on the upper Klamath River on Sept. 24, in what wildlife officials hope is a sign of the iconic fish repopulating ever-greater stretches of the ...