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Chinook fishing to open on Columbia
Statesman Journal
June 10, 2003
With a second year of good summer chinook returns, officials for the Oregon and Washington departments of Fish and Wildlife have decided to open a summer chinook sport fishery beginning Monday on the Columbia River.
Biologists estimated earlier this year that 87,600 adult summer chinook would enter the Columbia River.
That would be the second-largest run since 1969. In 2002, 129,000 summer chinook entered the Columbia in June and July.
The Columbia River was open to summer chinook fishing in 2002 for the first time since 1973.
Historically, summer chinook were known as “June hogs” because of their large size.
The season allows fishing for adipose fin-clipped summer chinook and adipose fin-clipped steelhead from June 16 through July 31.
The open area is from the Tongue Point/Rocky Point line near Astoria upriver to the U.S. Highway 395 Bridge near Pasco, Wash.
The daily bag limit is two adult fin-clipped salmon or steelhead, and five fin-clipped jack salmon. The bonus season is designed to allow 85,000 summer chinook migrate above Bonneville Dam from June 1 through July 31.
Biologists will monitor the season to ensure that deaths of wild, native summer chinook are less than 1 percent of the total run.
Wild summer chinook destined for the Snake River are listed as threatened under the federal Endangered Species Act.
Chinook fishing to open on Columbia
Statesman Journal
June 10, 2003
With a second year of good summer chinook returns, officials for the Oregon and Washington departments of Fish and Wildlife have decided to open a summer chinook sport fishery beginning Monday on the Columbia River.
Biologists estimated earlier this year that 87,600 adult summer chinook would enter the Columbia River.
That would be the second-largest run since 1969. In 2002, 129,000 summer chinook entered the Columbia in June and July.
The Columbia River was open to summer chinook fishing in 2002 for the first time since 1973.
Historically, summer chinook were known as “June hogs” because of their large size.
The season allows fishing for adipose fin-clipped summer chinook and adipose fin-clipped steelhead from June 16 through July 31.
The open area is from the Tongue Point/Rocky Point line near Astoria upriver to the U.S. Highway 395 Bridge near Pasco, Wash.
The daily bag limit is two adult fin-clipped salmon or steelhead, and five fin-clipped jack salmon. The bonus season is designed to allow 85,000 summer chinook migrate above Bonneville Dam from June 1 through July 31.
Biologists will monitor the season to ensure that deaths of wild, native summer chinook are less than 1 percent of the total run.
Wild summer chinook destined for the Snake River are listed as threatened under the federal Endangered Species Act.