WDFW to rebuilt wild stock of Chinook on the Cowlitz River

October 3, 2010 By Leave a Comment

OLYMPIA – With a strong run of fall chinook salmon returning to the Cowlitz Salmon Hatchery, state fishery managers plan to transport up to 5,000 hatchery fish upriver and release them upriver above the last of three dams on the Cowlitz River. Starting this week, tanker trucks carrying adult chinook will make daily trips from [...]

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Colville Confederated Tribes’ Selective Salmon Harvest

September 19, 2010 By Leave a Comment

While I am normally one to bash the hell out of tribal fishing practices, I have to say that it is nice to see at least one tribe making an effort to change their fishing methods to protect the native Chinook Salmon on the Columbia river.  For the last three years, thanks to funding from [...]

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