1. TRIBES AGREE TO REDUCE STEELHEAD HARVEST

The National Marine Fisheries Service and Columbia River tribes with
treaty fishing rights have reached a tentative, one-year agreement that
will reduce the "incidental take" of wild Snake River steelhead
during the tribes’ fall fishery above Bonneville Dam.

Fisheries managers for Oregon, Washington and Idaho describe the interim
tribal harvest rate as a "significant reduction."

"We still have concerns, but we are moving in the right …

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