The Obama administration is reviewing a Bush administration plan for balancing the needs of people and salmon in the Columbia River Basin _ a plan that has been criticized by a federal judge as doing too little to help salmon.

The Commerce Department released $53 million to Oregon and California on Thursday to help West Coast salmon fishermen after the third fishery failure in four years.

The governors of Oregon and California are asking the federal government to declare another West Coast salmon fishery failure _ the third in four years.

Federal biologists say three pesticides commonly used by farmers threaten the survival of many Pacific salmon and steelhead listed as threatened or endangered species in the West.

There won’t be much of a salmon season for fishermen off the California coast for the second year in a row.

The Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife says a sea lion trapped below Bonneville Dam is the first to die in a campaign to protect the salmon the animals feed on.

The federal agency in charge of saving salmon in the Columbia River Basin from extinction should have a plan in place to remove dams on the lower Snake River if necessary, a federal judge said Friday.

The federal agency in charge of saving salmon in the Columbia River Basin from extinction should have a plan in place to remove dams on the lower Snake River if necessary, a federal judge said Friday.

A federal judge is hearing arguments in a dispute over how to balance energy and utility needs in the Pacific Northwest’s Columbia Basin with the restoration of endangered salmon and steelhead trout.

West Coast salmon fishermen can expect another lousy fishing season _ the third in a row.