Portions of the Columbia River downstream of Bonneville Dam soon will be closed to all salmon fishing, fisheries managers from Oregon and Washington announced on Thursday.
The closure is due to higher-than-anticipated catch rates of lower river tule Chinook, which are listed under the Endangered Species Act.
Starting Saturday, all salmon and steelhead angling will be closed from Tongue Point near Astoria, Ore., to Warrior Rock near St. Helens, Ore.
Starting Tuesday, the closure will extend from Warrior Rock up to Bonneville Dam.
“It’s extremely disappointing that we have to close these areas down. Fishing has been quite good, but unfortunately along with that came using up the available tule Chinook allocation for these areas,” Tucker Jones, Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife Columbia River Manager, said in a news release.
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