The lower Columbia River will reopen to sport fishing Saturday for spring chinook salmon.
Oregon and Washington biologists agreed to the reopening in a telephone meeting Wednesday.
The river below Bonneville Dam had been scheduled to reopen June 11, but enough fish have passed upriver to allow an earlier opening, they said. This, despite concerns about a later-than-usual showing across the dam.
All other rules remain the same — one chinook salmon daily.
Sport fishing will not reopen upriver from the dam.
The states differed on an extension of tangle-net commercial fishing, so that will not continue.
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