Firefighters watch as flames and smoke move through a valley in the Forest Ranch area of Butte County as the Park fire continues to burn near Chico, Calif., on July 26. (Josh Edelson / AFP via Getty ...

DOOR COUNTY (WLUK) -- Fish biologists from the Department of Natural Resources were busy Monday morning, handling 473 fish in Door County. "We're just getting kicked off. Actually, today's the first ...

Chinook salmon are facing unprecedented challenges as their once-thriving populations struggle to survive. A new study published in the journal Ecosphere suggests that decades of human activities, ...

KLAMATH FALLS, Ore. — Spencer Creek will close to fishing Sept. 30, a month earlier than usual, to protect fall Chinook salmon that have returned for the first time in more than a century after dam ...

Crystal Robinson remembers the call from her team reporting an adult spawning chinook salmon spotted in a creek leading to the Klamath River, which was the subject of the recent removal of four ...

In the fall of 1980, a spawning escapement study was initiated on the West Branch Mill Creek, a major fall chinook salmon (Oncorhynchus tshawytscha) tributary of the Smith River. The purpose of the ...

For the first time in nearly a century, adult winter-run Chinook salmon have been spotted swimming in the McCloud River, a Northern California waterway. On July 15, experts with the California ...

Nature designed California’s Chinook salmon to be our forever fish. Why else would each spawning pair of adults produce about 5,000 fertilized eggs? If 99.96% of these eggs fail to produce adults that ...

California’s spring-run Chinook salmon were already in the midst of a population crash before the Park fire exploded into the state’s fourth-largest wildfire in history. Biologists now worry the fire ...