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TRIBES DID THE “HEAVY LIFTING’ ON BRINGING ONCE EXTINCT COHO BACK TO UPPER COLUMBIA, SNAKE RIVER BASIN
Open Icicle River Fishery 2022
The Fish & Wildlife Committee authorizes weekly openings on the Icicle River from Noon Thursdays to 6 pm Saturdays from May 12- July 30, 2022. Standard subsistence Platform/H&L gears. The use of treble hooks and snagging is prohibited.
2022 Spring Fishers Meeting: Rescheduled
Yakama Nation encouraged by EPA and Army Corps commitments to clean up Bradford Island Superfund Site
Yakama Nation encouraged by EPA and Army Corps commitments to clean up Bradford Island Superfund Site
2022 Platform Hook and Line Regs
2022 Subsistence Fishing Regs are available. T059-22 is attached for download.
Re-Open JD Pool Winter Gillnet Fishery
The Fish & Wildlife Committee authorizes another winter gillnet opening in the John Day Pool from 6am Saturday March 12 to 6pm Wednesday March 16, 2022. Downloadable regs are attached.
Additional Winter Gillnet Openings
The Fish & Wildlife Committee approve the following additional winter gillnet openings. The Dalles Pool 6am Thursday Feb 24 - 6pm Monday Feb 28, 2022 extend the John Day Pool to 6pm Monday Feb 28, 2022. Open the Bonneville Pool 6am Wednesday
Re-Open The Dalles Pool and Extend John Day Pool Winter Gillnet Seasons
The Winter Gillnet Fishery in The Dalles Pool will reopen 6am Wednesday Feb 16 - 6pm Friday Feb 18, 2022. The John Day Pool fishery willbe extended to 6pm Saturday Feb 26, 2022. See Regs attached
Winter Fisher's Meeting Presentation
Attached is the PowerPoint Presentation from the Winter Fisher's Meeting held today Jan 31, 2022 10am - 3:30 pm
2022 Smelt Permits
The 2022 smelt return to the Cowlitz is forecasted to be good. Therefore the F&W Committee authorizes a smelt fishery on the Cowlitz River through March 2022. Smelt Permits are available from Raemelle. Or you can download one here and submi
2022 Open Winter Gillnet Fishery
The Fish & Wildlife Committee approves the commercial winter gillnet fishery for Zone 6 of the Columbia River. The Dalles Pool open 6am Tuesday Feb 1 to 6pm Sat Feb 5, 2022. The John Day Pool opens 6am Tuesday Feb 1 to 6m Sat Feb 12, 2022.
2022 YN Winter Fishers Meeting
The Fish & Wildlife Comittee authorize a Winter Fishers Meeting January 31, 2022 from 10am - 4pm via Zoom. See attached for agenda and Zoom Link. Join Zoom
2022 January Sturgeon Setline Fishery
The YN Fish & Wildlife Committee authorize a commercial setline fishery for white sturgeon in all of Zone 6 of the Columbia River.
7am Saturday January 1 to noon Monday January 31, 2022.
Downloadable regs are attached.
Return of the Lamprey
Tribal-led conservation helps revive an ancient fish in Wenatchee River
Coho Have a Banner Year
Success of White Salmon River restoration a blueprint for other Northwest dams.
Condit Dam was breached 10 years ago, the largest dam removal in the U.S. at that time. Click on the links below to read a recent article on how the YN and others are helping to restore it here:
Additional Fall commercial gillnet fishing time
The Fish & Wildlife Committee authorize two additional fall commercial gillnet openings from 6am Monday October 4 to 6pm Thursday October 7 and from 6am Monday October 11 to 6pm Thursday October 14, 2014. See full regs attached.
Additional Fall commercial gillnet fishing time
The Fish & Wildlife Committee authorize additional gillnet fishing time in Zone 6 of the Columbia River from 6am Monday Sep 27 to 6pm Friday October 1, 2021. See regs attached.
Pacific Lamprey: Bringing Back an Ancient Fish
Article on the NWorthwest Power and Conservation Council's website, describing how Yakama Nation Lamprey Biologist Ralph Lampman briefed Council members on YN's efforts to restore this ecologically and cultually imporant species to levels that wil