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• Chinook season to open April 24

  March 18, 2010 in Outdoors The Idaho Fish and Game Commission has approved a plan to open the spring chinook salmon harvest on the Clearwater, Lower Salmon and Little Salmon rivers late next month.

• Idaho likely to get huge share of springers

  February 14, 2010 in Outdoors on Page C12 Spring chinook salmon are poised for a repeat of 2001, the recent high-water mark for salmon fishing in Idaho. Fisheries managers in Idaho are predicting a return of 180,000 spring …

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  Biologists cheer return of coho to Columbia

  December 31, 2009 in City on Page A6 YAKIMA – Fisheries biologists in the Pacific Northwest are cheering a record return of coho salmon this year to the upper and middle Columbia River basin, where the fish were …

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  Out & About

  November 29, 2009 in Outdoors on Page C12 Salmon warning served in Seattle OUTCRY – Seattle diners who ordered salmon at more than a dozen restaurants last week got their meal with a message: a warning that the …

• Columbia River salmon judge presses for resolution

  November 23, 2009 in Outdoors, Region A federal judge in Portland says he wants an end soon to 15 years of litigation over imperiled salmon and dams in the Columbia River system.

• Poachers caught fishing near hatchery

  October 25, 2009 in Outdoors on Page C13 Three Kennewick men caught fishing in closed waters have been charged in Franklin County District Court on several counts involving theft of salmon and steelhead from a state fish hatchery …

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  Utility agrees to removal of 4 Klamath River dams

  September 30, 2009 in Region In a major boost for dwindling salmon stocks, a utility company has agreed to the removal of four hydroelectric dams that for decades have blocked fish migrations on one of …

• Salmon plan has breach provision

  September 16, 2009 in Nation/World on Page A1 WASHINGTON – In a case closely followed by environmental and business interests, a rewritten plan for restoring endangered and threatened wild salmon runs on the Columbia and Snake rivers in …

• Salmon plan boosts protection, administration says

  September 15, 2009 in City, Region The Obama administration says it will be more aggressive in protecting declining Pacific Northwest salmon runs and will study breaching some dams as a last resort in a long-awaited management …

• Heat bares ice at Mount Rainier

  September 13, 2009 in Outdoors on Page C11 CLIMBING – An unusually early-summer snowmelt created hazards on the Muir Snowfield at Mount Rainier starting in August. Exposed bare glacier ice and crevasses have complicated travel on this route …

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  Salmon pour into region

  August 30, 2009 in Outdoors on Page C9 It is game on right now for an estimated 5.1 million pink salmon that are flooding into Puget Sound. “The pinks are as thick as fleas, and there are clearly …

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  Out & About

  August 23, 2009 in Outdoors on Page C10 Even ‘play dams’ are bad for fish OUTLAW – Rock dams built by kids and campers to create swimming areas in streams can be a death trap to migrating fish.

• Fishery managers predict big fall chinook run

  August 18, 2009 in Outdoors, City, Idaho Idaho fishery managers expect more than 28,000 fall chinook to cross Lower Granite Dam in neighboring eastern Washington on their return from the Pacific Ocean, which would make it the …

• Sockeye reach Stanley Basin

  August 16, 2009 in Outdoors on Page C9 The first two sockeye salmon of the season completed the marathon journey from the Pacific Ocean, up the Columbia and Snake rivers to Little Redfish Lake in Idaho’s Stanley Basin …

• NOAA granted another month for salmon plan

  August 10, 2009 in Region PORTLAND — A federal judge Monday gave the Obama administration another month before saying where it stands on the Bush administration’s strategy for balancing endangered salmon against federal hydroelectric power …

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  Economy had snag for area fishing icon

  August 9, 2009 in Outdoors on Page C10 How bad has the economy been? Northwest fishing icon Buzz Ramsey has been out of work since January, but he leverages his fishing allowance by using “poor man’s ramps,” as …

• McDermott calls for review of salmon recovery

  August 3, 2009 in Region U.S. Rep. Jim McDermott has called for a scientific analysis of the federal government’s Northwest salmon recovery effort, saying that most wild stocks remain at dangerously low levels despite the …

• Sockeye season opening at Lake Wenatchee

  August 3, 2009 in Outdoors Special fishing season authorized so anglers can harvest some of more than 23,000 sockeye salmon headed into this central Washington lake.

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  Alaska’s king salmon vanishing

  August 3, 2009 in Nation/World on Page A2 ANCHORAGE, Alaska – Yukon River smokehouses should be filled this summer with oil-rich strips of king salmon – long used by Alaska Natives as a high-energy food to get through …

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  Colville tribes look forward to opening of Columbia River salmon hatchery

  July 26, 2009 in Idaho on Page A1 NEAR BRIDGEPORT, Wash. – Fish flew as Shelly Davis and Raynee Innes hustled to get 1,300 salmon packed on ice. The women grabbed silvery sockeye and blue-backed chinook from coolers, …

• Idaho poised for another big sockeye run

  July 21, 2009 in Outdoors, Idaho Fish biologists say this year’s migration of sockeye salmon to Idaho is on track to be the biggest in decades.

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  Yakamas release sockeye into Cle Elum Lake

  July 8, 2009 in City on Page A7 SALMON LA SAC, Wash. – The Yakama Nation Indian Tribe released sockeye salmon into a lake on the east slope of the Cascades on Tuesday, marking yet another effort by …

• Field Reports

  June 28, 2009 in Outdoors on Page C9 FISHING – A banner season is expected for Washington salmon anglers, and the fish are already cruising the state’s saltwaters. A strong return of more than 1.2 million hatchery coho …

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  Surge of small salmon startling

  June 1, 2009 in City on Page A12 BONNEVILLE DAM, Wash. – In the world of salmon, size matters. That’s because big male fish have the best chance of fending off rivals to stake out a prime spot …

• Feds fact-finding on dams and salmon

  May 27, 2009 in City on Page A6 GRANTS PASS, Ore. – Two top members of President Barack Obama’s environmental team are in the Northwest this week, listening but pointedly not speaking about the tense conflict between salmon …

• Chinook forecast scaled down

  May 17, 2009 in Outdoors on Page C11 Salmon managers in the Columbia River Basin say only about half the number of spring chinook originally predicted will return past Bonneville Dam on the Columbia River this year. Managers …

• Salmon season looks good for Wash. anglers

  April 10, 2009 in Outdoors Salmon anglers will have more fishing opportunities off Washington’s coast and in the Columbia River this summer, while most recreational fishing in the Puget Sound will be similar to last … 1

• Lower Snake 3rd most endangered river

  April 7, 2009 in Region Four dams that are blamed for damaging salmon runs on the lower Snake River in Washington place the waterway third among the nation’s most endangered rivers, according to an annual … 5

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  Pre-dam photos may be glimpse of future

  March 30, 2009 in City on Page A1 Anyone who’s driven U.S. Highway 12 across southeast Washington’s rolling terrain into Idaho will recognize at least some of the scenery in Kyle Laughlin’s photographs. The Snake River flows through … 7

• River treaty changes floated

  March 28, 2009 in News The buzz of an electric alarm clock, the sweet heat of the shower, steam rising from a coffee mug. All over the Northwest, people start their day with energy from …

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