Twelve hours of commercial salmon fishing will begin at 7 p.m. Tuesday in the lower Columbia River.
The Columbia River Compact adopted the fishing period today. The net fleet will use gillnets with an 8-inch-minimum mesh from Beacon Rock to the ocean.
State, federal and tribal biologists have upgraded their forecast for the summer chinook run to 120,000, the largest since at least 1960.
A catch of about 500 summer chinook is anticipated Tuesday night. The commercials have a balance of 496 summer chinook on their allocation.
