The 2026 Northern Pikeminnow Sport-Reward Fishery will open May 1, offering anglers the chance to earn cash while helping protect vulnerable salmon and steelhead in the Columbia and Snake ...

BONNEVILLE DAM, Columbia River, Wash. – There is a new king of the Columbia. Each spring, a chrome tide of fish native to the East Coast floods the Northwest’s mightiest river by the millions. Shad, ...

Each Earth Day for the past four years, around 130 high schoolers from Battle Ground’s Center for Agriculture, Science, and Environmental Education have trekked to Harry Gardner Park in Toutl ...

Sea lions benefit from federal protections, but their relentless snacking on the Columbia's precarious salmon population has ...

What you need to know to earn cash for pikeminnow caught on the Columbia and Snake rivers, including at Tri-Cities.

Almost every day around noon between May 1 and Sept. 30, anglers line up near the boat ramp at the marina in The Dalles to get their catch tallied at the Pikeminnow Sport Reward Fishery Program ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The bounty program that pays anglers for turning in northern pikeminnow caught on the Columbia and Snake Rivers opens for the 2025 ...

Known for its diverse runs of salmon, the Columbia River draws thousands of anglers to test their luck each year. But with salmon runs nowhere near what they once were, fishing is tightly regulated to ...