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RICHLAND, Wash. — Scientists are using acoustic tags to better understand how juvenile salmon and steelhead travel from John Day Dam on the Columbia River to the Pacific Ocean.
Researchers from the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory in Richland and the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers’ Portland District are tagging about 240 fish each day Read More …

In support of the California Department of Fish and Game and its effort to keep hunters and anglers informed, Outposts, on Thursday afternoon or Friday, lists a portion of Carrie Wilson’s weekly Q&A column and provides a link so viewers can read its entire contents. Here’s this week’s lead topic:

Question: With the collapse of the salmon fishery in 2008, Read More …

by Thomas Elliott
The three best choices for whole, fresh consumption are:
 
CHINOOK SALMON (KING)
(Oncorhynchus tshawytscha)
Chinook are the largest of all Pacific salmon and one of the most important fish native to the Pacific Ocean. They are prized for their large size, high oil content and excellent table qualities. Chinook average 10 to 50 pounds, but Read More …

Kelly Zito, Chronicle Staff Writer
Lathrop, San Joaquin County –

During their sprint to the sea this spring, baby salmon on the San Joaquin River tried to elude not only hungry bass and sharp rocks, but a wall of sound, strobe lights and bubbles.

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The underwater show is the state’s latest attempt to save the fabled species Read More …