Test netting in the lower Columbia River will resume on Sunday after fishing caught only three spring chinook on Tuesday.
Cindy LeFleur of the Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife said there were a total of 13 drifts in Wahkiakum and Cowlitz counties with a catch of three chinook and eight steelhead.
Seven of the eight steelhead were wild. Of the three chinook, there was one fin-clipped lower Columbia salmon, one wild upper Columbia fish and one hatchery upper Columbia fish.
A Columbia River Compact meeting tentatively planned for today has been cancelled. A full-fleet gillnet season will not occur until more chinook are in the river and there is a better ratio of chinook to steelhead.
The test fishing was done with 4 1/4-inch-mesh tangle nets.
