Tens of thousands of kokanee salmon have died between Green Peter and Foster reservoirs due to a new extreme water drawdown at the reservoirs intended to help native fish, federal and state officials ...

Brad Halleck remembers waking up before sunrise to go fishing at Green Peter Reservoir. “If you didn’t get there by 7 a.m., the parking lots were full,” said Halleck, a longtime angler and board ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... A four-month fishing tournament held for the purpose of helping Colorado Parks and Wildlife manage the kokanee salmon population in Blue Mesa Reservoir near ...

When a million kokanee were flushed out of Green Peter Reservoir in 2023, immediately killing tens of thousands of the fish, it was one of the first and most striking impacts of a controversial ...

Kokanee are coming back to Green Peter Reservoir. Whether they’ll actually stay there for anglers to catch remains an open question. The Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife stocked 50,000 kokanee ...

A new tool in the arsenal of state fisheries biologists helped boost this year's harvest of kokanee salmon eggs. Biologists Jon Ewert of Hot Sulphur Springs and Jim White in Durango this year used a ...

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