The Alaska Board of Fisheries has turned down a proposal to halt sport fishing for all salmon species in the Situk River drainage near Yakutat. Correction: The biological escapement goal for Chinook ...
Sockeye salmon are returning to the Columbia River at numbers far higher than predicted by the Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife, bringing expanded fishing opportunities this summer.
Sockeye retention is now closed on the Columbia River downstream of the Highway 395 bridge at Pasco. The change, which went into effect Friday, happened because the allocation of sockeye for ...