Chinook, sockeye closures

Sport fishing on sections of the Columbia River closed July 18 because of high catch rates for summer chinook and sockeye salmon. The summer chinook fishery closed just after midnight Sunday downstream from Bonneville Dam under an agreement reached by fishery managers from Washington and Oregon. Sockeye fishing will close at the same time downstream from the Highway 395 bridge at Pasco.

Through July 14, anglers fishing below Bonneville Dam had caught and kept 5,282 summer chinook salmon- twice as many as last year- and released 2,553 others. They also caught 1,564 sockeye and released 390 othe...