Sports Anglers Urged to Release Wild Summer Chinook in Joint State Waters

Columbia River sports anglers are called on to voluntarily release wild summer Chinook, in spite of an ill-conceived and angler opposed regulation allowing the harvest of wild Summer Chinook salmon scheduled to begin Saturday, June 21. A handful of these wild Summer Chinook will enter the Columbia and fight their way to spawn in Canada, remnants of the once renowned “June Hogs”.