Just 29,000 steelhead passed the Bonneville Dam since July 1 – the fewest ever recorded and less than half the average of the past five years.
This year’s forecasted return of 81,700 upriver spring chinook is up 12% from last year’s return of 73,100, which was the lowest since 1999.
ASTORIA, Ore. — The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers wants to remove 500 eggs from double-crested cormorant nests as part of a long-term management plan to protect juvenile salmon being eaten by the cormorants in
LEWISTON, Idaho — Fisheries managers should shut down steelhead fishing in the Columbia and Snake river basins to protect a wild run that returns to Idaho’s Clearwater River, according to a conservation group. The Conservation
The Army Corps of Engineers kills the birds to reduce predation on runs of threatened and endangered juvenile salmon.
But the number of anglers out on the Columbia River trying to land sturgeon – and the number of fish caught – was so high this past Saturday and Monday that fisheries managers are now
One plan fisheries managers are considering to combat the low returns is restricting where anglers can fish during each month.
Corps officials say the birds eat up to 11 million juvenile salmon annually.
Hope is to provide cooler habitat for migrating fish in the Columbia River system of Washington and Oregon.
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