PORTLAND, Ore.— The Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife’s recent count of spring-run Chinook salmon returning to the South Umpqua River showed just 17 wild adult fish detected during snorkel ...

Although the fish were once abundant throughout the river basins of the Pacific Northwest, Chinook salmon populations have declined to a fraction of their historical size. "Umpqua Watersheds has ...

South Umpqua, Coos, Coquille, Rogue and Smith. The Coos and Siuslaw populations, as well as a former population in the Salmon River, have disappeared. “Spring Chinook numbers have plummeted in the ...

In a federal lawsuit filed in the District of Oregon, the Center for Biological Diversity, Native Fish Society, Umpqua ...