How tribal leaders, commercial fisherman and a few small environmental groups won an uphill campaign against dams.

After more than a century of obstruction, the Klamath River is experiencing a rebirth. After the recent removal of four ...

Thompson, who is now 28 and a member of the Yurok Tribe, had witnessed the 2002 fish kill on the Klamath River. "It was ...

California's fishing fleet depends on catching Chinook salmon. Low population numbers could lead regulators to shut down or ...

California’s embattled salmon populations continue to struggle. According to figures released on February 26 by the ...

This month, the Pacific Fishery Management Council released a review of the West Coast’s salmon fisheries in 2024. Salmon groups say the reported fish counts in the Klamath basin are low but not ...

Chinook salmon populations in California are still declining, despite salmon fishing being banned for two years.

California’s Chinook salmon population continues to decline, prompting concerns over a possible third consecutive closure of ...

Despite the closure of salmon fishing in California river and ocean waters in 2023 and 2024, the number of Fall Chinook Salmon returning to both the Sacramento and Klamath River Basins was well ...

There are kids being born now who will never have to know the devastation of the 2002 fish kill or how difficult dam removal was. Thankfully, they will experience the Klamath never knowing ...

The California Department of Fish and Wildlife ... This includes several dam removal projects, including along the Klamath River, the largest dam removal in U.S. history. However, unlike the ...

“The 2002 fish kill has changed what I do for work ... she lived near the mouth of the Klamath River, which was once the third largest salmon producer on the West Coast. Thompson has childhood ...