Running Red: Kokanee Salmon
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By Ray Grass Deseret Morning News  STRAWBERRY RESERVOIR -- The Strawberry River and some of its main tributaries are currently running red and will continue this way for the next month.  The kokanee salmon are spawning. It is their final act in life.
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By The Columbian, Vancouver, Wash.  Mar. 6--Compact adopts 12-hour fishery beginning at noon   Commercial fishing for spring chinook salmon in the lower Columbia River begins at noon today.
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By The Olympian, Olympia, Wash.  Dec. 9--LACEY -- A large number of salmon are swimming in Woodland Creek this year.   A former City Council member said the number of salmon is proof the city's investment in improving the creek's water quality is paying off.
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By Mark Yuasa, Seattle Times  May 31--Opportunities are everywhere for anglers, and now saltwater salmon fishing will be added to their slate.   The Tulalip bubble chinook fishery opens Friday, and early indications are good.
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WHITE SALMON, Wash. - Raw cougar meat, eaten by a deer hunter who found himself being stalked, is the apparent source of Washington state's first case of trichinosis since 2001, a health official says.
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By Anchorage Daily News, Alaska  Feb. 27--SOLDOTNA -- A subcommittee of Kenai Peninsula fishing interests  could not reach consensus on fishing methods for a subsistence fishery on the  Kenai and Kasilof rivers.
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By Mark Yuasa, Seattle Times  Dec. 14--The rain and wind have washed out most fishing plans, but those willing to venture out should find an odd place here and there to catch something.
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UST-BOLSHERETSK, Russia  - For a rare visitor to the volcanic Kamchatka peninsula in Russia's Far East, no other custom reveals more about the local economy, lifestyle and environment than salmon poaching.
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A new test could help scientists determine more quickly whether chinook salmon in the Klamath River are infected with a potentially deadly parasite.
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By Ron Cousins  The rain has kept salmon moving through the River Usk and the River Wye.   Fish to 22lb have been caught in the Usk and one of 5lb was caught way up river at Sennybridge.
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DALLAS _ In late May, Steven McBride of Yukon, Okla., caught a 114-pound paddlefish from northern Oklahoma's Arkansas River. The fish was in a stretch of river just below Kaw Lake.  When McBride hooked the fish, he thought it was a small one because it swam toward his boat.
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By Matt Weiser, The Sacramento Bee, Calif. Mar. 3--Fall-run chinook salmon that make a home in the Sacramento River and its tributaries fell last year to their lowest numbers since 1992, according to estimates by the Pacific Fishery Management Council.
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By Matt Bewley, Grand Forks Herald, N.D.  Jun.
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By Brent Frazee, The Kansas City Star, Mo. Mar. 4--COTTER, Ark. -- Donald Cranor's hopes of catching a big brown trout on the White River were rising almost as quickly as the water.
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By SAMANTHA YOUNG  SACRAMENTO, Calif. - A record run of chinook salmon is expected for California's Klamath River basin this year, prompting a federal fishery panel on Friday to suggest that restrictions on the West Coast salmon fishing fleet be eased for the 2007 season.
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DULUTH, Minn. _ How much is a walleye worth? Or a lake trout? Or a sturgeon?  Don Schreiner has an idea. And his dollars-and-cents valuation of gamefish casts the VHS fish disease problem in a new light.
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By Art Lander Jr., The Lexington Herald-Leader, Ky.  Jun. 15--The Kentucky Department of Fish and Wildlife Resources has issued a Wildlife Disaster Contingency Measure for brown and rainbow trout in the lower 40 miles of the Cumberland River below Wolf Creek Dam.