The Wild Fish Conservancy and The Conservation Angler say that the National Marine Fisheries Service, ODFW, WDFW and Clatsop County Fisheries are violating terms of the 2017 Mitchell Act and 2021 Select Area Fishery Enhancement Biological Opinions in a 60-day notice of intent they sent out last Friday.
Their allegations range from NMFS not putting together annual reports in a timely manner to WDFW failing to install fish weirs on several shorter streams on Washington’s Lower Columbia, from both states exceeding allowances for hatchery Chinook and coho strays on the gravel on several systems on both sides of the big river to ODFW releasing too many steelhead smolts into the Clackamas and undersized fish into the Sandy, among other claims.
