Washington and Oregon officials will meet at 4 p.m. Tuesday to consider an additional commercial salmon fishing period in the lower Columbia River.
The net fleet landed 1,610 spring chinook in a 14-hour season on Thursday night and Friday morning. About half those chinook were upper Columbia origin.
The commercials have roughly 800 upper Columbia chinook left on their allocation.
That allocation was based on run forecast of 210,000 upper Columbia chinook entering the river. State and tribal biologists upgraded that forecast on Monday to between 217,000 and 237,000, said Cindy LeFleur, chairman of the Columbia River Technical Advisory Committee.
Both sport and commercial catch totals can increase as the forecast increases.
Sport fishing resumed Sunday from the river mouth upstream to Beacon Rock for boaters and up to Bonneville Dam for bank anglers.