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Salmon pass through the Bonneville Dam fish ladder. Salmon advocates want a judge to force NOAA Fisheries to obey a court order on pesiticide protections for the fish. Associated Press (File Associated Press / The Spokesman-Review)
Salmon pass through the Bonneville Dam fish ladder. Salmon advocates want a judge to force NOAA Fisheries to obey a court order on pesiticide protections for the fish. Associated Press (File Associated Press / The Spokesman-Review)

FISHING -- With spring chinook salmon booming up the Columbia River system, some anglers find it particularly exciting to go online and feast their eyes on the fish viewing window at the top of the Bonneville Dam fish ladder to see what's headed upstream our way -- by the thousands.

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