ASTORIA, Ore. — Wildlife officials in Oregon have voted to end a summer steelhead hatchery program on the North Umpqua River after severe declines in the number of wild steelhead returning from the ...

On a cool fall day, I stood on a rock ledge overlooking the Big Bend Pool in Steamboat Creek, a major tributary of Oregon’s famed North Umpqua River. I was watching a male steelhead trout that I ...

Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife For the second time in three years, the North Umpqua River and its tributaries will be closed to all fishing for several months. The Oregon Department of Fish ...

ODFW asks anglers who harvest a hatchery winter steelhead to put the snout in specially marked collection barrels in the Umpqua Basin. If the fish is coded wire tagged, anglers may win a gift card to ...

Avid fisherman and conservationist Frank Moore is the namesake for a congressional bill being introduced by three Oregon lawmakers to protect 100,000 acres of the Steamboat Creek watershed along the ...

Unusually warm water has killed more than 150,000 summer steelhead fingerlings at an Umpqua River hatchery. (Oregonian file photo by Thomas Boyd) (THOMAS BOYD) EUGENE -- Unusually warm water has ...

ROSEBURG, Ore. — Wildlife officials in Oregon have voted to end a summer steelhead hatchery program on the North Umpqua River after severe declines in the number of wild steelhead returning from the ...