...authorities have released a final plan for restoring populations of chinook salmon, steelhead and bull trout on the Upper Columbia River. The 352-page recovery plan endorsed Tuesday by the National Marine Fisheries Service covers the chinook and...

...authority over the cleanup of the Columbia River to a commission controlled by the state of Idaho, Coeur received the Upper Columbia River Group's "Dead Swan Award." A dubious distinction indeed, and the only kind of award Coeur d' Alene Mines...

...The reduction in catch in northern ocean fisheries will increase annual returns of summer and fall chinook to the Upper Columbia River by 3 percent to 7 percent, a significant improvement from the 1999 agreement, said Olney Pratt Jr., executive...

...they eat large numbers of the young fish.'' Early reports also show a strong salmon population along the Upper Columbia River, Burke said. Canadian officials said a slight abundance in this year's stocks is possible, but the quota...