The Columbia River Compact convened by teleconference on Tuesday, September 29 at 2:00 p.m. to consider ongoing non-Indian commercial fisheries in the late fall time period. Fall Fact Sheet No. 13 and the subsequent Compact Action {read more}

The 12th annual Fisher Poets Gathering took place in Astoria, Oregon at the end of February 2009. Building on a surprisingly successful first event in 1998, each year since then the Fisher Poets Gathering has grown in size and in {read more}

The Columbia River Compact convened on Tuesday, September 22, 2009 at 3:00 p.m. to consider ongoing non-Indian commercial fishing periods during the late fall time period. Fall Chinook, coho, and sturgeon fisheries for the end of {read more}

In an op-ed piece published by The Daily Newsof Longview, Washington on Sunday, September 13, 2009, Salmon For All Board member Kent Martin, commercial fisherman of Skamokawa, Washington, responded to an op-ed by Bryan Irwin, executive {read more}

The Columbia River Compact convened by teleconference at 1:00 p.m. Thursday, September 10 to consider Treaty Indian fisheries and the non-Indian commercial fishery in the Deep River Select Area. Fall Fact Sheet No. 9 for September 10, {read more}

Even though retention and sales of white sturgeon caught in the Select Areas close on Sunday, September 6, 2009, over 2,000 sturgeon remain in the commercial quota for late fall gillnet fisheries on the Columbia River mainstem.  Perhaps {read more}

The Columbia River Compact convened by teleconference at 1:00 p.m. Tuesday, September 1, 2009, to consider ongoing commercial fisheries in the Select Areas. The sturgeon quota in the SAFE program will be used up this week. The staff {read more}