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2025 January Setline Regulations
The Fish & Wildlife Committee authorize a commercial setline fishery for white sturgeon in all of Zone 6 of the Columbia River from 7am January 1 to noon January 31, 2025. See attached for full regulations.
Rescind Mesh Restriction & Add Fishing Time
The Yakama Nation Fish & Wildlife Committee rescind the mesh restriction for the commercial gillnet opening in Zone 6 of the Columbia River from 6am September 30 to 6pm October 4, 2024 and authorize additional Fall Commercial Gillnet opening i
Additional Fall Gillnet Fishing Time
The Fish & Wildlife Committee authorize two additional fall gillnet fishing periods from 6am Sep 23 to 6pm Sep 28 and 6am Sep 30 to 6pm Oct 4, 2024. See regs attached.
Open Fall Coho Fishing on the Icicle River
The Fish & Wildlife Committee authorize weekly openings on the Icicle River for fall coho fishing from 6am Mondays to 6pm Saturdays effective Monday Sept 16, 2024. Full regs attached.
Additional Fall Gillnet Opening
The Fish & Wildlife Committee authorizes an additional fall gillnet fishing opening from 6am Monday Sept 16 to 6pm Friday Sept 20, 2024. See Regs attached for full details.
Additional Fall Gillnet Opening
The F&W Committee authorize additional commercial fall gillnet opening in Zone 6 of the Columbia River from 6am Monday Sep 9 to 6 pm Friday Sep 13, 2024. See regulations attached.
2024 Open Fall Commercial Gillnet
The Fish & Wildlife Committee have authorized the first three (3) fall commercial gillnet openings in Zone 6: 6am Mon Aug 19 - 6pm Thurs Aug 22; 6am Mon Aug 26 - 6pm Fri Aug 30; and 6am Mon Sep 2 - 6pm Fri Sep 6, 2024.
Extend Commercial Sales into Fall Season
The Fish & Wildlife Committee authorizes extending commercial sale for the platform fishery from 12:01am August 01 through 6pm December 31, 2024. See full regs attached.
2024 Fall Fishers Meeting
The Fall Fishers Meeting will be Monday Aug 12, 2024 from 10am to 3pm at the Hood River Inn. Agenda is attached.
Additional Summer Gillnet Fishing time
The Fish & Wildlife Committee authorize an additional summer gillnet opening in Zone 6 of the Columbia River fom 6am Monday July 22 to 6pm Weds July 24, 2024. See regs attached.
Additional Gillnet Fishing
The Fish & Wildlife Committee authorize additional gillnet fishing opportunity in Zone 6 of the Columbia River from 6am Mon July 15 to 6pm July 17, 2024 with NO Mesh restriction. See attached regulations for details.
Additional Summer Gillnet Openings
The Fish & Wildlife Committee have authorized 2 additional summer gillnet openings in Zone 6 of the Columbia River from 6am Mon July 1 to 6pm Thurs July 4 and 6am Mon July 8 to 6pm Weds July 10, 2024. See regulations memo attached.
Willamette Falls Lamprey Permits
The Fish & Wildlife Committee has authorized lamprey harvest at Willamette Falls according to the regulations on the attached Permit.
Cle Elum fish passage facility makes progress on passage efforts
Summer Commercial Gillnet Openings
The first two Commercial Summer Gillnet Openings have been set for 6am Monday June 17 to 6pm Weds June 19 and 6am Monday June 24 to 6pm Thursday June 27, 2024. Commercial sales also open 6am Monday June 17. See attached regs for full details.
Expand Icicle River Fishery
The Yakama Nation Fish & Wildlife Committee expands the weekly fishery on the Icicle River to 5 a.m. Mondays to 9 p.m. Saturdays effective June 5, 2024 through July 27, 2024
Expand Zone 6 Weekly Platform openings
The the Fish and Wildlife committee hereby expands the platform h&l fishery weekly openings to 6am Wednesdays to 6pm Saturdays; for subsistence only, effective 6am Wednesday June 5, 2024 throu
2024 Icicle River Fishery Opens
The Fish & Wildlife Committee authorize weekly openings on the Icicle RIver from 5am Thursdays to 9pm Saturdays effective May 23, 2024. See the attached regulations for full details.
RE-Open Zone 6 Platform/Hook & Line Fishing
The Spring Chinook run has been updated to 122,400 returning to the mouth of the Columbia River.
2024 Close Zone 6 Platform/Hook & Line Fishery
The Fish and Wildlife Committee hereby closes the Platform Hook and line Fishery in Zone 6 of the Columbia River at 6pm Thursday May 2, 2024. The closure will remain in effect until enough Spring Chinook are available for tribal harvest not to e