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Fisheries managers concerned but not pushing steelhead panic button yet

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By Eric Barker Verified
| The Spokesman-Review Verified
Fisheries managers in Idaho, Washington and Oregon are closely watching the Snake River steelhead return that is shaping up to be one of the lowest on record, but they aren’t ready to make changes to fishing rules. From July 1 to Sept. 1, there were 45,522 steelhead counted at Bonneville Dam, the first of eight dams the fish must pass on their return from the Pacific Ocean. That trails the 10-year average by more than 31,000 fish and is the third-lowest run through Sept. 1 dating back to the 1930s.
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Fisheries managers concerned but not pushing steelhead panic button yet

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By Eric Barker Verified
| The Lewiston Tribune Verified
2026 run, to date, is one of lowest on record A pair of spey casting steelhead fishermen try their luck in the Clearwater River near Hog Island in this file photo. Tribune Fisheries managers in Idaho, Washington and Oregon are closely watching the Snake River steelhead return that is shaping up to be one of the lowest on record, but they aren’t ready to make changes to fishing rules. From July 1 to Sept.
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Dead salmon bring life to mountain streams

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By Eric Barker Verified
| Yahoo Verified
Aug. 30—LOLO CREEK — With a motion resembling an easy golf swing, Abraham Yearout launches a spawned-out spring chinook salmon toward Lolo Creek. The carcass splashes in the clear, cold stream on the Nez Perce-Clearwater National Forest and settles on the gravelly bottom. Yearout, a fisheries specialist with the Nez Perce Tribe's Department of Fisheries Resource Management, repeats the motion that sends nine more carcasses into the stream.
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