Last year, after the historic removal of four dams on the Klamath River, thousands of salmon rushed upstream into the long-blocked waters along the California-Oregon border, seeking out the cold, ...

Respecting fish’s lateral lines needs to be part of the salmon recovery discussion. However, more studies are not needed to ...

Stakeholders disagree about what will happen when a ‘nature-like fishway’ opens the door to a vaunted trout fishery.

Without augmented fish passage standards, these groups worry the dams will result in the collapse of endangered Atlantic salmon and sturgeon populations. Ideally, they would like to see the dams r ...

Most of Vermont's 1,100 or so dams are privately owned and no longer serve a purpose, with many of them filled with silt and ...

Common sense tells us that if we suddenly slam a fish’s lateral lines with very powerful sound, its ability to sense nearby movement will weaken, at least for a while. The louder, or longer it is ...

Environmental advocates allege in a lawsuit that the Eugene Water and Electric Board failed to implement legally required fish passage measures and instead opted for a less effective method.

A decade before the Klamath Dams were removed, NOAA and other partners removed dams on the Elwha River in Washington State. Those removals re-opened fish habitat that had been blocked for a century.

On April 1, 1980, I was living in New York City and facing a transit strike that would require a 9-mile walk to midtown to work. So my two kids and I packed up and early that morning went out and ...

"The project is going to get done and it’s going to fix a wrong," said Kevin Zak of the Naugatuck River Revival Group.