CLE ELUM - For anglers who have enjoyed the kokanee fishing at Cle Elum Lake, those days reeling in and harvesting 16 of the relatively small (typically 9- to 12-inch), landlocked sockeye from the ...

YAKIMA, Wash. (AP) - Slightly more than 10,000 adult sockeye salmon just arrived in Lake Cle Elum, their upstream migration diverted by a tanker truck ride courtesy of Yakama Nation Fisheries.

At the heart of the park is Lake Easton (a reservoir) which is fed by the Yakima River that flows into the west end of the ...

SALMON LA SAC, Wash. — The Yakama Nation Indian Tribe released sockeye salmon into a lake on the east slope of the Cascades on Tuesday, marking yet another effort by ...

Restoring sockeye to Lake Cle Elum is made possible by a crude fish passage system at the spillway to the 437,000-acre-foot lake. A flume allows smolts to escape to the downstream Cle Elum River.

A ceremony that included Native song and dance and a prayer for the future of the fish ended with the release of 100 sockeye salmon into Cle Elum Lake in Central Washington.

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SALMON LA SAC, Wash. — The Yakama Nation Indian Tribe released sockeye salmon into a lake on the east slope of the Cascades on Tuesday, marking yet another effort by ...