PORTLAND, Ore. (KOIN) – Oregon is set to receive a “lifeline” $7 million in federal funding to address the state’s fishery disaster impacting Chinook salmon, lawmakers announced last week. Commercial ...

PORTLAND, Ore. (KOIN) – Oregon Gov. Tina Kotek announced Friday that a fishing disaster has been declared following a three-year commercial fishery failure in the state. The declaration comes after ...

It would be the seventh disaster declaration since 2016 for the state’s coastal salmon fisheries, which have been hit by warming waters and drought from climate change. FILE - This August 2017 photo ...

September’s coho rodeo off the central Oregon coast just got rowdy for a little longer. The preseason quota for an any-coho season, 25,000 legal-sized fish, has been boosted to 30,700. Beginning Sept.

Co-management of a Chinook salmon hatchery on the Coquille river in southwest Oregon has helped the fish population thrive again. That means Chinook fishing could soon return. Natural populations of ...

Growing up in Oregon was one of the greatest experiences of my life. It is no secret that I love this state, and her vast beauty still stuns me every time I return. I have written several pieces on ...

Chinook salmon, pictured here, is Oregon’s official state fish and is of high cultural value to Northwest tribes and high economic value to Oregon’s coastal economies. (Photo courtesy of Pacific ...