Lower Columbia To Reopen For Spring Chinook

State salmon managers are reopening the Lower Columbia for spring Chinook for three more days after catch estimates showed a large enough harvestable balance still available below Bonneville Dam.
NMFS Celebrates Collaboration’s Removal Of Bateman Island Causeway At Mouth Of Yakima

Federal fishery overseers are celebrating the collaborative effort to remove a barrier at the mouth of the Yakima River that created thermal and predation issues for adult and young salmon and steelhead, a project decades in the making and six weeks of on-the-ground work completed earlier this year.
MGP Visits WDFW Hatchery She’d Like To See Reopen With Federal Funding Boost

A Southwest Washington Congresswoman this week swung by a state hatchery that’s in the process of being closed, putting more pressure on WDFW to reverse course and reopen the facility that has produced steelhead and trout for local fisheries.