Spring Chinook Return Estimates Drop To Below Average, Halting Spring Fishing Until Run-Size Update

Fisheries officials on Tuesday again downgraded their estimate of the number of adult upriver spring chinook salmon that are expected to return to the mouth of the Columbia, dropping the projection from 216,500 to 209,400 fish.

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