Though they don’t match up with so-called historic numbers, several
chinook salmon runs this past year, and forecasts for the spring of 2000,
surpass recent history.
An early prediction is that 134,000 Columbia-Snake upriver spring chinook
will pass Bonneville Dam next spring, the most since 1977 when 143,000
were estimated to have passed the first dam on the Columbia River on their
way to spawning grounds in tributaries and upper reaches.
And the fall chinook run that dwindled …
