With Summer Chinook Returns Running Way Below Forecasted, Another Columbia River Fishing Season Shuts Down Early

With a lower-than-expected return of summer Chinook to the Columbia River, Washington and Oregon will close the river downstream of Priest Rapids Dam to recreational angling for the fish July 1, bringing the summer season that began June 15 –and was to go to July 31 — to an abrupt end.

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