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Article: Around the Valley -- Yakima River Spring Chinook Season Ends -- Fund- Raiser Dubbed "Great Escape" -- Yakamas to Honor Women Veterans
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- Yakima Herald-Republic
- Article date:
- June 14, 2002
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Yakima River Spring Chinook Season Ends
The Yakima River's spring chinook salmon season will end as
scheduled Sunday night.
Because high flows had hampered sport angling conditions for
weeks, fisheries officials had considered extending the season if
conditions were likely to improve. But that won't be the case, said
John Easterbrooks, regional fish program manager for the Washington
Department of Fish and Wildlife.
"The forecast is for sustained high flows through the rest of the
month and into July. It doesn't look like the flows are going to come
down to the point where we'll have fishable conditions that will give
the angler a decent chance of success."
The final total of spring chinook ...