NOAA’s Fisheries Service has released its recovery plan for upper Willamette Chinook and steelhead. The plan, prepared jointly with the Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife, calls for improving habitat and hatcheries and reintroducing Chinook and steelhead into habitat above … Continued
Bull trout will soon return to Oregon’s Clackamas River, one of their home waters from which they were completely wiped out nearly 50 years ago. As part of an overall recovery strategy for this threatened species, the U.S. Fish and … Continued
The sport fishery for hatchery-reared spring chinook salmon has been extended through June 15 on a section of the Columbia River stretching 163.5 miles above Bonneville Dam. Previously set to close June 3, the spring chinook fishery was extended by … Continued
A cooperative effort of the Oregon and Washington departments of fish and wildlife seeks to re-establish chum (keta) salmon on the Oregon side of the lower Columbia River. In April, the Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife (ODFW) released 106,000 … Continued
Beginning the week of March 7, the annual trout stocking of Oregon’s north coast lakes will resume. A number of lakes are scheduled to be stocked with legal size (about 8-10”) rainbow trout. Hebo Lake is back on Oregon’s trout … Continued