Gavin Newsom and state officials credit state’s conservation efforts as a key factor that has contributed to the progress.

More than 6.2 million young salmon were released from Coleman Hatchery in March. Here’s what to know about the risks they ...

As salmon and steelhead swim upstream, they’re now facing one more challenge in fish ladders. It’s a non-native fish competing for space: the American shad. At Lower Granite Dam on the Lower Snake ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A chinook salmon jumps upstream in Alameda Creek in November while migrating for spawning. Some salmon have swum further up the ...

KLAMATH FALLS, Ore. — Video captured a Chinook salmon successfully summiting the fish ladder at an upper Klamath River dam this week, according to the Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife — the ...

Adult fall-run Chinook salmon congregate near the Nimbus Hatchery Fish Ladder on the American River in Sacramento County in this October 2012 file photo. (Photo by Carl Costas/California Department of ...

BONNEVILLE DAM — The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers is gutting and rebuilding a large section of Bonneville Dam’s fish ladder to make it easier for Pacific lamprey to pass the dam as they return from ...

As soon as it rains, coho salmon likely will swim up a small creek to a spawning ground in the west Sonoma County hills that has been impassable to the species for decades. When they come to the ...