BPA Dishes Out $1.3 Million To Anglers For Reeling In 140,000 Northern Pikeminnow In Columbia/Snake Rivers; Top Angler, $69,000 For 7,000 fish
In 2022, anglers caught and removed more than 140,000 northern pikeminnow from the Columbia and Snake rivers, which the Bonneville Power Administration says is protecting hundreds of thousands of young salmon and steelhead from predation.