Lower Columbia Reopening For Spring Chinook

Fishing for hatchery spring Chinook will reopen on the Lower Columbia April 11-13 and 15-17, salmon managers at WDFW and ODFW decided this afternoon.
Article Warns That DC Cuts May Impact Future Puget Sound Chinook Fishing, Returns

A New York Times article out this morning details how Chinook production at nearly a dozen hatcheries in Western Washington is said to be in “limbo” because cuts back in DC put a critical National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration staffer out of a job, placing future fisheries at risk.