• Algae bloom an enemy to the epic journey of salmon, steelhead

    Algae bloom an enemy to the epic journey of salmon, steelhead

    The Pacific Northwest’s three iconic and endangered species — Chinook salmon, steelhead and lamprey eel — are now returning from the ocean and migrating up the Columbia and Willamette Rivers to their birthplace streams and tributary rivers in an event called the fall run.  On the peninsula we are surrounded by their migration on both…