UNDERWOOD — For 125 years, millions of tule fall Chinook salmon have passed through the Spring Creek National Fish Hatchery (SCNFH), incubating, hatching, stocking, and returning years later to spawn — a cycle completed by scent after years at sea.
This week’s photo, shows the Covington fish wheel, near Three-Mile Rapids, according to a museum record. As noted by reader and historian Marylin Urness, fish wheels were outlawed in 1934, and the presence of cottonwood trees in the background makes the exact location a little mysterious.
Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife media release
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Free news, online only:Â Fall Chinook fishing will be closed from the Hwy 730 bridge upstream to Threemile Dam in the Umatilla River from Sept. 22 through Nov. 30.
Old stories, news and photos from the last century of local newspapers in the Columbia River Gorge. A hundred years ago, an owl roosted in the governor's chair and a famed local wrecked his car.
Oregon fishermen will begin testing ropeless crabbing technology next spring in an effort to save whales from often-fatal entanglements. The state since 2021 has taken steps to reduce whale entanglements, including requiring additional late season crabbing tags and limiting how many crabbing pots fishermen can use and how deep they can place them, Oregon Department […]
Last week’s image might show the Lower White Salmon river, or might show the Little White Salmon; it might show some people setting a fish trap of some kind, or scientists nabbing fish for a hatchery.
A 100-year-old fish hatchery on the North Umpqua River near Roseburg almost completely burned down in 2020 and is ranked near the bottom for quality and return on investment among all state-run hatcheries. State wildlife officials recently voted to continue funding and partially rebuild it, to the tune of $20 million. The decision has split […]
