The Northwest Power Planning Council last week approved the use of $300,000
in Bonneville Power Administration funds to expand a terminal fisheries
program in the lower Columbia River. The money will be used during the
1999 fiscal year to add 12 net pens at one of the four existing net pens
sites — Deep River, which is about nine miles east of Astoria on the Washington
side of the Columbia — and place 12 pens in a new site at Steamboat Slough,
which is about 10 miles farther east. …
