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Article: Coho run leads to help for the hungry.(Outdoors Columnist)(Surplus fish allow the ODFW to send the extra meat on to food banks around the state)
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- The Register Guard (Eugene, OR)
- Article date:
- October 27, 2009
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Byline: Mike Stahlberg The Register-Guard
Surplus salmon on the dinner table, a surge in the number of hunters and fishers and an unexpected ally in the war on poaching are topics of this week's look Inside the Outdoors.
This year's banner run of coho salmon has received considerable publicity as bag limits were raised and seasons extended. Anglers were even allowed to harvest "wild" coho in some waterways for the first time in many years.
Sport fishers, however, will take only a tiny percentage of the 700,000 coho returning to the Columbia Basin. Coho are notoriously finicky biters.
As a result, state fish hatcheries are being ...