Fisheries biologists start the annual process in October because that’s when the salmon are ready to give up their eggs.

The North of Falcon (NOF) process is under way right now. Every year, state, federal, and tribal fisheries managers get together to hash out the Northwest’s recreational and commercial salmon ...

Strips of chum salmon hang on a drying rack on Aug. 22, 2007. Residents of Indigenous communities in Western and Interior Alaska have long depended on chum salmon, and declining runs have caused ...

Federal fisheries managers did not mishandle trawl fishing rules amid Alaska’s ongoing salmon subsistence crisis, a federal judge in Anchorage has ruled. “This suit arises from the apparent tension ...

LAKE OROVILLE: The lake continues to release water, dropping 8 feet in the past two weeks to 815.15 feet in elevation and 72 percent. King salmon are showing signs of life as Dave Koistinen of Tornado ...

The mammals’ return to the region represented a conservation success story, but their appetite for endangered fish is upsetting the balance of a delicate ecosystem A seal catches a salmon off the ...

For centuries, borders have been central to salmon management customs on the Salish Sea, but how those borders were drawn has had very different effects on the Northwest salmon fishery. Native peoples ...