As salmon and steelhead swim upstream, they’re now facing one more challenge in fish ladders. It’s a non-native fish competing for space: the American shad. At Lower Granite Dam on the Lower Snake ...

KLAMATH FALLS, Ore. — Video captured a Chinook salmon successfully summiting the fish ladder at an upper Klamath River dam this week, according to the Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife — the ...

A salmon passed through the fish ladder of a key dam on the upper Klamath River on Sept. 24, in what wildlife officials hope is a sign of the iconic fish repopulating ever-greater stretches of the ...

Frank Richards, a retired Maine state statistician who has been involved in dam and fish ladder projects for the past 30 years, near the Lockwood Dam in Waterville. Credit: Linda Coan O'Kresik / BDN ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A chinook salmon jumps upstream in Alameda Creek in November while migrating for spawning. Some salmon have swum further up the ...

More than 6.2 million young salmon were released from Coleman Hatchery in March. Here's what to know about the risks they face.

BONNEVILLE DAM, Columbia River, Wash. — There is a new king of the Columbia. Each spring, a chrome tide of fish native to the East Coast floods the Northwest’s mightiest river by the millions. Shad, ...

A year after the historic removal of four dams along the Klamath River in Northern California and Southern Oregon, Chinook salmon have cleared the waterway's last remaining dams and returned to ...

As soon as it rains, coho salmon likely will swim up a small creek to a spawning ground in the west Sonoma County hills that has been impassable to the species for decades. When they come to the ...