Still-surging estimates of the 1999 upriver bright
fall chinook salmon
run allowed the Columbia River Compact to offer something
for everyone
Monday.
The Compact on Monday approved a one-day extension
of one non-Indian
commercial fishery and OK’d two others for next week.
The
Oregon-Washington compact, which sets mainstem Columbia
commercial
fisheries, also endorsed a tribal commercial fishery
Sept. 29-Oct. 2
And the states’ two representatives to the Compact
agreed to reopen …
