NOAA Fisheries Finalizes ‘Rebuilding’ Report To Inform Dialogue On Columbia River Basin Salmon Restoration
October 6th, 2022
NOAA Fisheries has finalized a report that identifies actions that the agency says have the greatest likelihood of making progress toward rebuilding populations of salmon and steelhead in the Columbia River basin to “healthy and harvestable levels.” The agency had released a draft in July for limited comments.
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Federal Judge Says NOAA’s Approval Of Southeast Alaska Troll Salmon Fishery Fails To Protect ESA-Listed Salmon, Whales
August 11th, 2022
A Seattle federal district court judge ruled this week that NOAA Fisheries’ authorization of the Southeast Alaska troll fishery violated the Endangered Species Act by approving harvest levels that fail to protect Southern Resident killer whales and wild chinook listed under the ESA.
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Anticipating Shasta Lake Water Too Hot For Sacramento River Salmon, Innovative Chilling Units At Hatchery Protecting ESA Chinook
August 11th, 2022
The Bureau of Reclamation and U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service are partnering to protect winter-run Chinook salmon in a crucial year of their life cycle at the Livingston Stone National Fish Hatchery at Shasta Lake during the third consecutive drought year in California.
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A Salmon From Upper Columbia Blocked Area Returns; Tribes Tracking Released Juveniles As Part Of Reintroduction Effort
July 14th, 2022
A female spring chinook salmon released as a smolt by the Coeur d’Alene Tribe in 2020 in upper Hangman Creek near Tensed, Idaho has returned to the Upper Columbia River where she will be transported around dams lacking fish passage and returned to her natal stream. She will be the first adult Chinook salmon to return to the Coeur d’Alene Tribe’s aboriginal territory in over 100 years.
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Current Recovery Plan Not Working: Tucannon River Spring Chinook In Big Trouble, Options Explored
July 14th, 2022
What’s the most imperiled salmon stock in the Columbia/Snake river basin? It may be the Tucannon River’s spring Chinook. The fish have taken a dive, possibly facing extinction.
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Hot, Dry, Low-Flow Conditions Has California Trucking 20 Million Hatchery Salmon Smolts To Ocean; Placed In Seaside Net Pens
June 23rd, 2022
The California Department of Fish and Wildlife is nearing the completion of its efforts to transport 19.7 million hatchery-raised fall-run and 960,000 spring-run juvenile Chinook salmon to the San Pablo Bay, San Francisco Bay and seaside net pens this spring and summer.
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No More Steelhead Hatchery Releases In Hood River Basin; Returns All Wild By 2025
May 26th, 2022
This year, for the first time since 1956, no hatchery steelhead were released into Oregon’s Hood River basin. By 2025, except for a few hatchery strays, steelhead returns to the Hood River and its tributaries will be wild steelhead only.
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Oregon Judge Grants Preliminary Injunction Allowing Hatchery Releases Of North Umpqua River Summer Steelhead
May 18th, 2022
An Oregon judge has granted a preliminary injunction that led to the release of hatchery summer steelhead smolts into the North Umpqua River Thursday (May 19) , reversing last month’s ruling by the Oregon Fish and Wildlife Commission.
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Tribes Did The “Heavy Lifting’ On Bringing Once Extinct Coho Back To Upper Columbia, Snake River Basin
May 12th, 2022
Historically about one million coho salmon returned annually to the Columbia River and were abundant throughout the upper Columbia River and Snake River watersheds. By the 1980s, the fish were gone from the basin interior – extirpated. But today, in several rivers above Bonneville Dam, the coho are back.