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.

Courtesy of Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife It’s a great time to go fishing in Western Oregon. But recent runs of coho salmon have set a record and spawned a mystery. Jeff Ziller is the ...

Coho salmon are returning in record numbers and spreading into parts of the Upper Willamette Basin they’ve never historically been seen. After a record number of the ocean-going fish entered the river ...

The number of coho salmon returning to Oregon’s coastal rivers has improved dramatically in recent years, to the point that the salmonoid may qualify for removal from the federal Endangered Species ...

Editor’s note: The story has been clarified to describe more of the impacts to spring and summer salmon fishing season. PORTLAND, Ore. (KOIN) – The Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife announced ...

A coalition of environmental and fishing groups have sued Oregon over allowing logging on state forest lands and allege the activity is damaging streams used by coho salmon. The lawsuit filed ...

In this episode of the Explore Oregon Podcast, host Zach Urness talks with Debbie Colbert, director of the Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife. Colbert became the first female director of ODFW, an ...