Puget Sound Energy has received a new, 50-year federal operating license for the 190MW Baker River hydroelectric project in Skagit and Whatcom counties in northwest Washington state.

Puget Sound Energy (utility subsidiary of Puget Energy (NYSE:PSD)), on Oct. 17, received a new, 50-year federal operating license for the utility's largest hydropower facility, the 190-megawatt (MW) Baker River Hydroelectric Project in Skagit and Whatcom counties in Northwest Washington state.

By Scott Sandsberry, Yakima Herald-Republic, Wash. Jul. 17--YAKIMA -- Anticipation over a possible sockeye fishing season at Lake Wenatchee has blossomed to even greater levels over the past several days as two other similar fisheries appear unlikely to happen.

Juvenile sockeye salmon in northwest Washington's Baker River only recently began their springtime trek to the sea, but early fish counts suggest that Puget Sound Energy's new "floating surface collector" may be inducing the river's largest out-migration of sockeye on record.

By Mark Yuasa, Seattle Times Feb. 17--The Columbia River coho forecast was recently released, and anglers shouldn't expect off-the-charts fishing in the ocean this summer.