September’s coho rodeo off the central Oregon coast just got rowdy for a little longer. The preseason quota for an any-coho season, 25,000 legal-sized fish, has been boosted to 30,700. Beginning Sept.

Chinook salmon migrate up the Columbia River in Oregon. (Dave Alan/Getty Images) Editor’s note: This is the second installment of a four-part series on salmon that will run in the Idaho Capital Sun on ...

It would be the seventh disaster declaration since 2016 for the state’s coastal salmon fisheries, which have been hit by warming waters and drought from climate change. FILE - This August 2017 photo ...

For the seventh time in less than a decade, Oregon’s commercial fishermen, governor and congressional delegation are asking for federal aid to soften the blow of climate change on the state’s ocean ...

MONTHS. WE’RE GOING TO PUT A LITTLE LINE ON THIS. SEE HOW THAT WORKS FOR THE LAST 48 YEARS? DEPENDS ON WITH A FOOT PEDAL UNDER THE COUNTER. DENNIS FENNER HAS OWNED AND OPERATED. THERE WE GO.

For Snake River Chinook salmon and steelhead, the threshold is fewer than 50 adult fish in a population returning from the ocean for four consecutive years. Below that floor, the population’s ...

Chinook salmon, pictured here, is Oregon’s official state fish and is of high cultural value to Northwest tribes and high economic value to Oregon’s coastal economies. (Photo courtesy of Pacific ...