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 ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

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

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 ...

Officials estimated fewer than 104,000 fall-run Chinook are likely to return to the Klamath River, the second lowest estimate since 1997. The only other time salmon fishing has been entirely shut ...

Here are the latest ocean salmon catch data provided by state Fish and Wildlife: ILWACO (18,900 is hatchery catch quota and 10,200 is catch chinook quota) 1,296 anglers July 1-3 caught 158 chinook ...

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.

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.