A federal judge has given NOAA four months to make a Endangered Species Act listing determination for two distinct ...

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

The National Marine Fisheries Service, or NOAA Fisheries, will determine whether spring-run Chinook salmon in the Pacific ...

On the lower Columbia River from Rocky Point/Tongue Point line upstream to Bonneville Dam there were 156 salmonid boats and 514 Washington bank rods were tallied on June 28.

Once thriving, there are now believed to be just 73 Southern Resident killer whales left in Washington state's Puget Sound.

Following a lawsuit filed by a coalition of conservation groups, a U.S. district court has set deadlines for NOAA Fisheries ...

Orcas are brilliant creatures. Their brains are highly developed when it comes to problem-solving skills, cognition, and ...

The preseason forecast for Chinook is good, and the coho projection is fairly solid. The in-river seasons have been set, and ...

U.S. Sen. Patty Murray pledges to block the $1.3 billion in cuts to NOAA, which would eliminate funding for the Pacific ...

The spring chinook run on the Snake River has just concluded, and this year was supposed to be consequential for the struggling fish. Four years ago, environmental activists wrote in these pages that ...

As a community mourns the deaths of three young sisters, the search for closure is complicated by a manhunt and efforts to ...