GOLD RIVER, Calif. — The Nimbus Fish Hatchery is delaying the annual opening of its salmon ladder. The ladder was scheduled to open during a Halloween event on Tuesday. Early November is ...

The fish were seen gathering in the holding pool at the top. The ladder is a vital part of the salmon spawning season. It allows the fish in the American Rivers to enter the hatchery.

Staff only allowed about 200-300 fish to swim up to the holding pool. Friday's opening of the fish ladder is a test run due to low oxygen levels discovered in the water earlier this week.

The fish that arrive at Nimbus are beaten up and weathered from fighting upstream for months, and their fillets would be out of place on fine-dining restaurant plates. Still, they’d been good ...

The Chinook salmon stock DIPAC raises return as mostly 5-year-old fish, so with this 5-year-old component missing, we need every large fish to hopefully make our goals.” ...

In 2019 the federal government acknowledged that Southeast Alaska’s limits for king salmon troll fishing didn’t allow for enough fish to migrate south to southern resident territory. A year ...