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Spring chinook release begins Saturday on Lewis, Kalama

By Al Thomas, Columbian Outdoors Reporter
Published: May 25, 2011, 5:00pm

Spring chinook salmon caught in the Lewis and Kalama rivers must be released beginning Saturday.

The Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife announced on Thursday both streams are far behind reaching their hatchery spawning needs with only light sport catches and no evidence of large numbers of salmon holding in the river.

Fewer than 100 chinook have entered the traps on the Lewis River, far below the spawning need of 1,300. State biologists initially forecasted a return of 3,400 spring chinook.

Only 11 adult spring chinook, including three wild salmon, had returned to Kalama Falls Hatchery as on May 20. The hatchery needs 400 and only 600 were predicted to return to the river this year.

Both streams remain open for hatchery steelhead.

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