This year’s run of juvenile Snake River fall chinook looks good, according
to National Marine Fisheries Service fisheries biologist Paul Wagner.
"Assuming the ocean is friendly, things could go well," Wagner
said.
The fish passage index for wild fall chinook subyearlings at Lower Granite
Dam was five times as high as expected, according to cumulative data from
the Columbia River Fish Passage Center.
The fish passage index, however, is not a measurement of actual …