FISHING -- While preliminary forecasts for 2016 Columbia River fall chinook salmon returns are promising, the spring runs that will start off the 2016 season are, well, at least good enough. Here's a report on today's preliminary forecasts from Columbia River fish managers by Al…
FISHING -- The latest numbers, still to be refined, peg the Columbia River's 2015 fall chinook run at 1.4 million fish, easily exceeding the record of 1,268,400 set in 2013. (Comparable record keeping started in 1962.) The majority of the run was "upriver brights" bound...
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