Built to help fish traverse the Deschutes River, Tumwater Falls Hatchery welcomes 250,000 annual park visitors and 3.8 million Chinook salmon each year. The $9-million modernization project built ...

Many of the state’s fish begin their lives not in a mountain stream but in a small white box in New Hampton at one of the state’s six fish hatcheries, where young fish are bred and raised before being ...

Migrating salmon on the Deschutes River received a boost from the hatchery upgrade, which combined fish-ladder extensions and expanded holding and juvenile-rearing ponds. The ponds have new viewing ...

The ability of salmon hatcheries to increase wild salmon abundance may come at the cost of reduced diversity among wild salmon, according to a new study. The ability of salmon hatcheries to increase ...