Federal funding shortfalls and staff vacancies are putting the Columbia River Basin’s fish hatcheries — and the salmon and steelhead they produce — at risk, experts warn. The potential fallout could ...

Hundreds of fins undulate beneath the surface in a walled pond next to Icicle Creek at Leavenworth National Fish Hatchery, a little more than 100 miles east of Seattle. The fish, adult spring chinook ...

The Departments of the Interior and Commerce on Thursday announced a $240 million investment from President Biden’s Investing in America agenda to support fish hatcheries that produce Pacific salmon ...

SALMON AND STEELHEAD. FOR ANGLERS ON THE AMERICAN RIVER, THE LINE BETWEEN HOPE AND WORRY IS GETTING THINNER. CALIFORNIA DEPARTMENT OF FISH AND WILDLIFE SAYS IT PLANS TO CUT SALMON AND STEELHEAD TROUT ...

As public debate takes place surrounding Alaska’s private nonprofit salmon hatcheries, it is worth grounding the conversation in what Alaska uniquely built: a science-driven, state-regulated ...

WITH PRESEASON FORECASTS of decreased seasonal wild steelhead returns, fish managers with the state Department of Fish and Wildlife have made a move they hope will limit some of the pressure these ...