VANCOUVER, Wash. — When Joe Hymer first saw the figure, he thought it must have been a typo. The veteran fishery biologist for the Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife was reviewing the daily ...

A fall Chinook that fell for a spoon at the mouth of a Columbia River tributary. Anglers in the Vancouver area are getting fall salmon in the local hog lines. (Terry Otto for The Columbian) Fishery ...

Oregon and Washington will reopen spring chinook salmon fishing Friday on the Columbia River below Bonneville Dam. More salmon than expected in counts at the dam allowed approval Wednesday of a two ...

Just as adult returns to the basin have risen, so too has the number of fish bound for areas upstream of Bonneville Dam – another council goal. For decades, the council that includes representatives ...

BONNEVILLE DAM — The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers is gutting and rebuilding a large section of Bonneville Dam’s fish ladder to make it easier for Pacific lamprey to pass the dam as they return from ...