The popular spring Chinook fishery on the Deschutes River will not open in 2015.
According to Rod French, district fish biologist with the Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife, managers are predicting a very poor return of both hatchery and wild fish this season.
Spring Chinook returns to the Deschutes — both wild and hatchery — have been depressed the last several years, French said.
In order to ensure that the hatchery is able to collect enough brood stock to meet production goals, fishery managers have determined the Deschutes will remain closed to spring Chinook under permanent rule. In years with good returns, a spring Chinook fishery has been opened under emergency rules.
Fishery managers are unsure why returns are down.
The fall Chinook season on the Deschutes River will open Aug. 1.
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