Fall Fact Sheet No. 16 & Compact Action
October 11th, 2011
The Columbia River Compact convened by teleconference at 11:00 a.m Tuesday, October 11, 2011 to consider additional non-Indian commercial fishing time in the late fall time period. Roughly 1,000 upriver bright (URB) fall Chinook and 8,000 coho remain available for harvest in the non-Indian harvest guidelines.
The US v. Oregon Technical Advisory Committee (TAC) has reviewed salmonid stock status, and has revised the inseason abundance estimates for fall Chinook and early stock coho. TAC’s current projection is for 335,000 URBs and 260,000 early stock coho at the river’s mouth. This compares to the preseason forecast of 390,900 URBs and 168,500 early stock coho. Counts of late stock coho at Bonneville Dam begin on October 1, and total 13,600 adult fish. Passage is typically 40% complete by October 9, which means the upriver late stock coho run is tracking slightly lower than the preseason forecast of 36,700 adult fish at Bonneville Dam. Despite that, TAC is reasonably confident that the late stock coho run will come in slightly higer than the preseason forecast, since all salmon runs have been tracking late this year, and early coho returns have been so strong compared to preseason expectations.
Fall Fact Sheet No. 16 and the subsequent Compact Action Notice are appended as PDF files.
