Herman the Sturgeon — a 10 foot-long white sturgeon beloved in the Columbia River Basin — is celebrating his birthday Saturday, and the public is invited to the party at Bonneville Fish Hatchery in ...

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It’s been a busy week for salmon managers in Oregon and Washington and something of a perfect storm for their constituents.

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 ...

CASCADE LOCKS, Ore. (KTVZ) – Who doesn’t like a big fish story? This one is about a sturgeon in a pond at Bonneville Fish Hatchery. Herman the Sturgeon is kind of a big deal in Oregon: a white ...

The Columbia River pours through the Bonneville Dam spillway on Thursday, Aug. 22, 2024, at Bonneville Dam. (Taylor Balkom/The Columbian) At 12 this morning, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers opened ...

Anglers will get another shot at a better-than-expected spring chinook salmon run on the Columbia River. Bolstered by a 30% uptick in the spring run at Bonneville Dam, Oregon and Washington biologists ...

Buoy 10 fishing for hatchery coho salmon will resume Thursday. So, too, for either hatchery coho or any chinook in an area downriver from Bonneville Dam to the east end of Reed Island, upriver a few ...

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 ...