ASTORIA — A nine-hour gillnet fishery will begin at 9 p.m. Thursday in the Columbia River from the mouth to Beacon Rock.
The Columbia River Compact also approved net fisheries the nights of Aug. 16, 18, 21, 23 and 25 from the Warrior Rock on Sauvie Island upstrem to Beacon Rock.
Westport open daily — Marine waters off Westport will be open for salmon fishing daily beginning Monday. Ilwaco, La Push and Neah Bay already are open seven days a week.
Ilwaco creel — Anglers off the southern Washington and northern Oregon coasts had taken 15 percent of their coho quota through last week.
Officials estimate there are 1,812 angler trips out of the Columbia River ports with 174 chinook and 1,397 coho. That’s an average of 0.87 salmon per rod, the worst catch rate since the coho season opened on June 26.
