The National Marine Fisheries Service on Thursday told tribal and non-tribal
fishers that there might not be enough Columbia-Snake river spring chinook
salmon to satisfy everyone’s harvest desires this year.
Documents sent to NMFS last month indicate treaty tribes would like
to harvest up to 9 percent of this year’s run, predicted to be the largest
since 1977. Oregon and Washington would like to allow non-tribal sport
and commercial fishers to take up to 2 percent over the next few …
