The first Joint Management Staff  Fact Sheet of 2012 is now available for the face-to-face Compact on January 26, 2012 at the Sheraton Portland Airport Hotel. Winter Fact Sheet No.1 and the subsequent Compact Action Notice are posted {read more}

The 2012 stock status reports for sturgeon and smelt, as well as spring Chinook, summer Chinook, sockeye, steelhead, and shad are now available. Both are large files: the sturgeon and smelt report is 534 KB in size; the winter/spring {read more}

The first hearing of the Columbia River Compact for 2012 is scheduled for Thursday, January 26. It will be a face-to-face meeting at the Sheraton Portland Airport Hotel on NE Airport Way. The Joint Management Staff will consider {read more}

The Columbia River Compact convened by teleconference at 10:00 a.m. Tuesday, November 1, 2011 to consider treaty Indian fisheries for white sturgeon. Because there are ample numbers of sturgeon remaining under the harvest guideline for {read more}

The Columbia River compact convened by teleconference at noon on Monday, October 24, 2011. Late returning coho stocks have been under-performing with respect to preseason expectations so far, leading staff to conclude that the inseason {read more}

The Columbia River Compact convened by teleconference at 3:00 p.m. Monday, October 17, 2011 to consider additional non-Indian commercial mainstem fishing time in the late fall time period.  The US v. Oregon Technical Advisory Committee {read more}

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 {read more}

The Columbia River Compact convened by teleconference at 1:00 p.m. Thursday, October 6, 2011 to confer with tribal co-managers concerning proposed modifications to the treaty platform hook-and-line and Yakima tributary fisheries. The {read more}

The Columbia River Compact convened by teleconference at 10:00 a.m. Tuesday, October 4, 2011 to consider setting another non-Indian mainstem commercial fishing period. At the current in-season estimate for the upriver bright (URB) fall {read more}

The Columbia River Compact convened by teleconference at 2:00 p.m. Thursday, September 29, 2011 to consider ongoing Treaty Tribal fisheries in Zone 6 above Bonneville Dam. Even with the uncertaintly in the final upriver run size for fall {read more}