With ‘Lights Out’ Chinook Fishing At Buoy 10, Managers Alter Regulations To Ensure Enough Salmon For Upriver Fisheries
After a “lights out” early season for the Buoy 10 fishery at the mouth of the Columbia River, fishery managers from Oregon and Washington last week adjusted regulations to manage Chinook harvest in this fishery and to ensure fisheries further upriver can continue as originally planned. Effective Aug. 25 through Sept. 2 (after which Chinook…