With Updated, Higher Spring Chinook Run Size Forecast, 18 More Fishing Days In Lower River; Skamania Steelhead Return Lowest On Record

Even with a Skamania hatchery steelhead return at its lowest since Bonneville Dam was built and Cowlitz River hatchery spring chinook salmon unlikely to meet broodstock needs, the two state Columbia River Compact this week extended retention of hatchery spring chinook from Tongue Point in Astoria to the Oregon and Washington border.