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Archive Home > 2009 > February > 05 > No spring chinook season on Deschutes

No spring chinook season on Deschutes

Very few fish are expected to return to the Warm Springs River from the Pacific this year Only 400 wild fish are predicted to return to Warm Springs River

By Mark Morical / The Bulletin
February 5, 2009

Despite all the complicated issues with spring chinook salmon fishing on the Columbia River, there is no debate on the fishery for the Deschutes River: There will be no chinook season this spring.

Fisheries biologists for the Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife made that decision this week....

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