Tribes Warn ‘Run Sizes Not Large Enough To Support Treaty Rights’ As Harvest Managers Set Fall Chinook Fishing Dates
In a year of underwhelming returns of salmon and steelhead to the Columbia River, commercial gillnetters will begin targeting fall Chinook salmon on the mainstem Columbia River and in off channel Select areas beginning Aug. 1. With little opposition from commercial interests, the two-state Columbia River Compact set periods for fall Chinook fishing for Treaty…
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British Columbia Research Documents For First Time Bacterial Disease (Skin, Fin Ulcers) Killing Wild Chinook Salmon; Well-Known In Farmed Salmon
/in 04. WILDLIFEResearchers have documented tenacibaculosis – a bacterial disease that causes skin and fin ulcers and mortality in fish – in wild Chinook salmon for the first time, according to a new study published in Scientific Reports.