Columbia River Fish Counts 2022
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Even in my neck of the woods I've had to skip/avoid some places that have large fish with some white fungal spots, pretty cool.
Columbia River salmon fishing to close below Bonneville Dam
Portions of the Columbia River downstream of Bonneville Dam soon will be closed to all salmon fishing, the Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife announced on Thursday.www.columbian.com
That said, this does happen every year. Then they re-open it after a few days/weeks off.
Mtnsaremyhome
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Memorable double from that Smokey the bear year...
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There is an emergency meeting at 10am today and all signs point to a total salmonid closure below Bonneville
Booooooooo.... stop killing Thulesfingers crossed for a soon re-opening so I can have a good excuse to drive from Idaho to hang out with @Evan B
Yep, people need to stop killing those roof racks…..
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That was a good morning!
Even if they close it, they will re-open it. Happens every year. I can't think of a year where there weren't at least a few days of closure in this section.
Which is an ironic statement if you know @Mtnsaremyhome and his work resumeYep, people need to stop killing those roof racks…..
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Biologists abruptly shut down recreational salmon fishing in lower Columbia River, frustrating anglers and managers alike
No fishing for any salmon or steelhead downriver of the dam will be allowed from Friday morning until further notice, but fishing remains open upriver from Bonneville and, for hatchery coho salmon, in the ocean off the river’s mouth.
www.oregonlive.com
This really, really bums me out. A lot. I look forward to this fishery in my backyard every year. I know it always has shut downs like this, but this one feels more permanent. I don't know that it'll reopen before October 1.
Had plans to take my dad and a few out of town friends who are visiting in September. So much for that
All because there were MORE fish than predicted. Makes perfect sense.
Had plans to take my dad and a few out of town friends who are visiting in September. So much for that
All because there were MORE fish than predicted. Makes perfect sense.
Bums me out too. I was scheduled to fish the 8, 9, and 10th. I can handle not going salmon fishing. What really bums me out is that the closure is because the allowable "take" of ESA Tule Chinook has been exceeded. Ordinarily this would make sense to me. The reason it doesn't make sense in because the fishery managers, and in this case NMFS, all pretend that LCR Tules are a natural stock that can be recovered to a naturally self-sustaining status. They can't. They are functionally extinct as a natural stock. Natural spawners exist only because millions of hatchery Tules are produced and released every year, and some of them stray and spawn naturally. I do believe that some of those hatchery fish spawning naturally do produce offspring that survive to return and also naturally reproduce. However, the numbers IMO are so small and variable that Tules statistically have no chance of recovery. If all hatchery Tule production ceased, Tule returns would rapidly disappear. They would disappear because the historical habitat used by Tules is degraded to the point that naturally self-sustaining Tule populations are not possible. And that habitat, under current and proposed environmental protection regulations, will remain unable to support naturally self-sustaining Tule Chinook for the foreseeable future, as in 100 years or more. The habitat is in industrial forest land, agricultural land, rural residential, and other compromised habitat types. There is no lucid reason to expect Tules to ever recover. Yet those who implement the ESA continue to pretend that any listed population can be recovered IF ONLY we just keep at our recovery efforts. In direct denial of pretty plain evidence to the contrary.
Really, really hoping for an announcement of reopening below Bonneville. It's so painful to have this happening down the street from my house and no ability to go enjoy it.
It’s the dumbest shit ever, especially because there are still non tribal nets out below Bonnie.This really, really bums me out. A lot. I look forward to this fishery in my backyard every year. I know it always has shut downs like this, but this one feels more permanent. I don't know that it'll reopen before October 1.
Had plans to take my dad and a few out of town friends who are visiting in September. So much for that
All because there were MORE fish than predicted. Makes perfect sense.
