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Chinook Salmon Fishing on Columbia River
by Bill Monroe
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The on-again, off-again fishing season on the Columbia River is off again for fall chinook salmon.
Oregon and Washington met by telephone Wednesday afternoon and ordered an end to all non-treaty chinook harvests starting at 11:59 p.m. Friday from Buoy 10 to the U.S. 395 bridge at Pasco, Washington.
Biologists said an unexpected surge in numbers of one of several separate stocks of chinook masked an unexpected reduction in others under federal protection. Both are salmon bound for areas upriver from Bonneville Dam.
Coho fishing remains open throughout the river.
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