Federal officials have adopted a plan for adding a fish ladder at Lake Cle Elum and reopening miles of spawning habitat for fish above the dam, northwest of Cle Elum.

YAKIMA — A proposal that would provide fish passage at Lake Cle Elum Dam for the first time in more than a century has been released for public comment. The proposal is contained in a draft ...

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.

News Pacific NW Construction continues on project to improve fish passage, water storage at Cle Elum Lake Sept. 7, 2022 Updated Wed., Sept. 7, 2022 at 4:50 p.m. X Email Reddit ...

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. Biologists plan to ...

Fish biologists Joel Hubble, left, and Pat Monk watch as water from Lake Cle Elum rushes down a flume below the dam March 16, 2015. The water was let from the lake to allow sockeye salmon to begin ...

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.

Northbank Civil & Marine Inc., a small business based in Vancouver, won the contract. If the tunnel is successful, construction of a fishery on Lake Cle Elum could be next, Visser said.

Lake Cle Elum near Roslyn, Wash. Author: KING Staff and KING5.com (KING) Published: 3:00 PM PDT July 10, 2013 Updated: 3:00 PM PDT July 10, 2013 ...

YAKIMA — About 14,000 sockeye salmon are expected to spawn in Lake Cle Elum this fall, according to the Yakama Nation Fisheries Program, a record since the tribe’s reintroduction effort began ...

A ceremony that included native song, 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. Biologists plan to ...

Sport anglers could catch more non-native trout in Lake Cle Elum and give sockeye a leg up in the process under a proposed change to fishery regulations. The proposal by the state Department of ...