Summary
There are many details still to work out, but the shape of salmon fishing in the ocean this summer, and the Columbia River this fall, incrementally is getting more clear.
First, the ocean picture, and its dismal. A season thats only about 15 percent of the 2007 fishery off the Washington and northern Oregon coast looks likely.See the full content of this document
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Outdoors: Ocean, Fall Salmon Seasons Will Be Down
Coho returns to the Columbia River this year are forecast to be the worst since the early 1990s. The prediction is for 196,700 coho, compared to an actual return in 2007 of 462,000. A good Columbia coho run is 800,000 to 1 million.
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