Salmon Fishing USA

State Fish and Wildlife just sent out a press release that indicates the Lower Snake River will open for spring chinook fishing.

The Shoshone-Bannock Indian Tribes petitioned the National Marine Fisheries Service on April 2, 1990 to list the Snake River sockeye salmon as an endangered species restoring hope.

The Obama administration is getting good advice to keep spilling water at federal dams in the Columbia and Snake river basins to move young salmon toward the Pacific.

Nearby Mill Creek Dam will not be one of the dams removed Last week PacifiCorp—the utility company that provides electricity to Walla Walla—agreed to remove four of its dams on the Klamath River in Oregon and California, as the dams have devastated the Klamath’s salmon runs. PacifiCorp’s four hydroelectric dams block returning salmon from reaching their ancestral spawning grounds. If we want salmon to survive, we must remove more dams than just those on the Klamath. Snake River salmon fac

Here at Wend, we just signed on to Save Our Wild Salmon’s letter calling on President Obama and Oregon Senator Merkley for solutions on the Columbia-Snake River Basin. Here’s the official press release via Save Our Wild Salmon (you can learn more on the SOS blog ): Today, more than 100 outdoor and recreational fishing businesses called on President Obama and Oregon Senator Merkley for leadership on one of the nation’s most important natural resource issues: the protection and restoration