Return Of Columbia River Smelt ( ESA-Listed 15 Years Ago)This Year Expected To Be Close To 10-Year Average; Limited, Tentative Fishery Announced

Expecting a slightly smaller run of eulachon (smelt) into the mainstem Columbia River this year than last year – about 8.6 million pounds – the two-state Columbia River Compact adopted a limited three-day-a-week commercial gillnet test fishery. The decision allows gillnetters using small mesh nets to fish for the threatened species in Zones 1 to 3 (roughly from the Astoria Megler Bridge to Puget Island).

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