Harvest Updates

Yakama Nation Harvest Management

Under the Treaty of 1855, the Yakama Nation reserved the right to fish, hunt and gather and other rights at all usual and accustomed places. This includes the preservation of fish habitat at all usual and accustomed fishing places. 

The Yakama Nation manages fisheries resources to ensure continued access by Yakama members to fulfill their ceremonial, subsistence and commercial needs.  This treaty reserved right includes the right to have fish present to harvest, at all usual and accustomed places.

Harvest News

The Fish & Wildlife Committee authorize the first three (3) summer commercial gillnet openings in Zone 6 of the Columbia River from 6am Tuesday June 16 to 6pm Friday June 19, 6am Monday June 22 to 6pm Wednesday June 24, and 6am Monday June 29...

The Fish & Wildlife Committee authorizes weekly openings on the Icicle River from 5am Thursdays to 9pm Saturdays effective June 11 through July 25, 2026. Downloadable regs attached.

The Fish & Wildlife Committee has authorized one day of fishing on the Icicle River: 5am to 9pm on Saturday June 6, 2026.

Flashboard installation has concluded at Willamette Falls. Lamprey Fishing permits can be requested from the Fish & WIldlife Committee. A request form is attached here.

The Yakama Nation Fish & Wildlife Committee authorizes Commercial Sale for the Platform/Hook and Line Fishery. From 6am Thursday May 28 to 11:59pm Monday June 15, 2026. See downloadable regulations attached.

Revision – Effective April 13, 2026: Special Provisions for the Columbia River: T-56-026 Section 1.D: 9.

Title 32 FWLO 32.10.05 GG Original Definition: A “set net,” “hoopnet,” or “setbag net” means a bag-shaped net made of wire, monofilament, or twine webbing, attached to a metal or wooden hoop no larger than twenty...

Attached are the YN regulations regarding the Incidental Take of Marine Mammals in Treaty Fisheries.

The 2026 Subsistence Platform/Hook & Line Regulations were approved during the March Tribal Council Session

The Fish & Wildlife Committee authorize an additional commercial sturgeon setline opening in The Dalles Pool from 6am Wednesday March 11 to 6pm Monday March 16, 2026. Regulations are attached.