Columbia River Steelhead In Trouble? 2026 Shaping Up To Be ‘One Of The Poorest Steelhead Returns In Modern History’

Fisheries biologists this week downgraded two Columbia River fish return forecasts, dropping the fall Chinook forecast 9 percent and also predicting a return of A- and B-Index summer steelhead that would be the worst return of the fish since Bonneville Dam was built in 1938.

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