5. FALL CHINOOK COUNTS MOUNT AT BONNEVILLE DAM

Anglers up and down the Columbia River are sharing the bounty as fall chinook salmon course their way upriver.

Sport and tribal and non-Indian fishers are hauling in chinook in numbers unprecedented in recent years. The fall chinook return to the river mouth was predicted to be 659,800 adult fish — the third highest since 1948 behind those of 1987 and 1988. That number is expected to include nearly 500,000 chinook from hatcheries and spawning grounds above Bonneville Dam.

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