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Wild spring Chinook harvest prohibited on North and mainstem Umpqua rivers https://www.facebook.com/v8.0/plugins/like.php?action=like&app_id=268260476539516&channel=https%3A%2F%2Fstaticxx.facebook.com%2Fx%2Fconnect%2Fxd_arbiter%2F%3Fversion%3D46%23cb%3Df3fac6141571cc4%26domain%3Dwww.dfw.state.or.us%26is_canvas%3Dfalse%26origin%3Dhttps%253A%252F%252Fwww.dfw.state.or.us%252Ff965e1197698c%26relation%3Dparent.parent&container_width=0&href=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.dfw.state.or.us%2Fnews%2F2023%2F12_Dec%2F121923.asp&layout=standard&locale=en_US&sdk=joey&share=true&size=small&width= https://platform.twitter.com/widgets/tweet_button.2f70fb173b9000da126c79afe2098f02.en.html#dnt=false&id=twitter-widget-0&lang=en&original_referer=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.dfw.state.or.us%2Fnews%2F2023%2F12_Dec%2F121923.asp&size=m&text=Wild%20spring%20Chinook%20harvest%20prohibited%20on%20North%20and%20mainstem%20Umpqua%20rivers&time=1703051502546&type=share&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.dfw.state.or.us%2Fnews%2F2023%2F12_Dec%2F121923.asp December 19, 2023 ROSEBURG, Ore. – Keeping adult and jack wild spring Chinook salmon on the North and…
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The 2023 eggs harvest is complete with 250,896 eggs taken. 108,600 were sent to Elk River Hatchery to be reared to Smolt and released in the early fall of 2024.…
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November 8, 2023 2023 Chinook Salmon Egg Harvest Continues. To date, we have sent 108,600 eggs to ODFW’s hatchery at Elk River and keeping 63,160 at the Gardiner hatchery. Eggs…
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The 2023 Fall Chinook Salmon spawning season is scheduled to begin on Wednesday, November 1st at the GRWB STEP hatchery at 9:00am. The public is invited to attend. It’s an…
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October 2nd. A dozen STEP volunteers joined in to release our remaining 60,000 Fall Chinook Smolt on Monday. Together with the 40,000 + we released in the late spring that…
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Dan Vasquz landed this 26.6-pound Chinook opening morning of the derby. It held on to 1st place throughout the derby even though several larger fish were caught but not registered…
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With the GRWB STEP Derby just 10 days away these ladies show us there are salmon in the lower river and they can catch em’. Clair & Chris, Makena, and…
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The lower Umpqua River 2023 salmon season is off to a good start with anglers catching a number of fish in the 20 pound range so far during August. The…
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Though the discovery was initially announced in the fall of 2019, a November 2021 study published in Ecology and Evolution provides greater detail about the rare phenomenon. The researchers confirmed that the hybrid salmon…
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April 7, 2023 NEWPORT, Ore – The Pacific Fisheries Management Council (PFMC) yesterday finalized the 2023 ocean salmon seasons. These include ocean waters off Oregon. Columbia Basin hatchery coho salmon…
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