New ‘facilitated migration’ framework gives water managers a playbook for getting more juvenile Chinook salmon from the ...

Offspring of reintroduced spring-run Chinook salmon are now returning from the ocean. NOAA Fisheries is also advancing the reintroduction of spring-run Chinook to the upper Yuba River upstream of ...

Under the terms of a settlement agreement, there could soon be new federal protections for the Chinook, the largest of all Pacific salmon.

Adult fall Chinook salmon in the Priest Rapids Hatchery. The fall-run ocean Chinook fishing season could be closed for much of Oregon through Sept. 1. Pacific Northwest National Laboratory ...

A juvenile chinook salmon was caught in the Kettle River in British Columbia earlier this month, marking the first time since reintroduction efforts began that the species was found in the stream. The ...

Salmon, including chinook, California’s predominant species, rely on plentiful waters to hatch and travel from their spawning grounds to the ocean and then to migrate back again and drop the ...

After one to five years roaming the ocean and building up powerful muscles, mature chinook salmon return to the streams of their birth each fall. Taking advantage of water levels raised by fall ...

The fish need water that is at least 59 degrees or cooler to successfully spawn and hatch babies that migrate to the ocean. Chinook salmon return to their spawning areas one to three years after ...

IDAHO FALLS – At the end of the 850-mile journey that chinook salmon make from the ocean to the central Idaho wilderness, the fish are beat up, decaying and will soon die.

Chinook salmon are the "largest and most highly prized" of all the salmon in the Pacific ocean, according to the council. But over the years, the species has become increasingly endangered as a ...

At the end of the epic 850-mile journey that chinook salmon make from the ocean to the central Idaho wilderness, the fish are beat up, decaying and will soon die.