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The report concludes that there is potential for certain activities associated with large-scale mining to have adverse impacts on the productivity and sustainability of the salmon fishery in the watershed. Potential impacts could include loss of habitat used for salmon spawning and rearing. …read more… Looks like Roy and Phil are working the media folks at ODFW and WDFW today. They’ve fired off a quartet of spring Chinook news blurbs this afternoon. To wit: 1) WDFW on the Columbia east Gorge reopener: Spring chinook fishery …read more… (OREGON DEPARTMENT OF FISH AND WILDLIFE PRESS RELEASE) Oregon and Washington fishery managers announced today that the Columbia River from Bonneville Dam upstream to the OR/WA border above McNary Dam will re-open to spring chinook and steelhead fishing this weekend, …read more… (WASHINGTON DEPARTMENT OF FISH & WILDLIFE EMERGENCY RULE CHANGE NOTICE) Halibut fishing to close in most of Marine Area 2 Action: Close the recreational halibut fishery in Marine Area 2 (Westport-Ocean Shores), except that halibut fishing is allowed in the …read more… Columbia salmon managers now say that around 216,500 upriver-bound spring Chinook will return to the mouth of the big river, thanks to continued strong days at Bonneville Dam. Officially, it’s a refining of a revised run forecast earlier this week …read more… 
Sorry for the abbreviated post — hellish deadlines for multiple magazines — but here’s a link to fishing opportunities to be had around Oregon this weekend, courtesy of ODFW’s weekly Recreation Report THE WILLAMETTE, WHERE STEPHANIE GATES CAUGHT THIS …read more… (WASHINGTON DEPARTMENT OF FISH & WILDLIFE PRESS RELEASE) (USGS current conditions: Above average and headed up.) Two sections of the Yakima River will open this week to fishing for hatchery-reared spring chinook salmon, under regulations adopted by the Washington Department …read more… (IDAHO DEPARTMENT OF FISH & GAME PRESS RELEASE) A 2-year-old Rogerson boy, Rudy Kasel, wandered lost for about three hours two miles from home, before being found by Pepper, a 3-year-old black Labrador trained for wildlife detection and human tracking. (OREGON DEPARTMENT OF FISH AND WILDLIFE PRESS RELEASE) Fishery managers have announced 2012 summer and fall salmon fishing seasons on the Columbia River. The seasons are based on results of this year’s Pacific Fishery Management Councils (PFMC) process including a …read more… (COURTESY TANNA TAKATA, ODFW) Weekend Fishing Opportunities: * Angling for summer steelhead, spring chinook jacks and sockeye opens Wednesday, May 16 between Tongue Point and the I-5 Bridge. * Shad angling opens Wednesday, May 16 between Buoy 10 and Bonneville …read more… |
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