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<br />S. ince the 1966s,. state, federal a.ndin. ter- <br />national fishery managers have been <br />e. steadily cutting harvest rates to protect <br />sahnon runs, For example, there has been. no <br />commercial fishing for Columbia River sum- <br />mer chinook sahn0n since 1964. The last <br />fishing season for .anySnake River chinook <br />sahnon was in 1975, although limited fishing' <br />continues for sahnon returning to a hatchery <br /> <br />'on the Rapid River, a Sahnon River tributary. <br />Aildthe United States and Canada signed a <br />treaty in 1985 that set limits on harvests of ' <br />salmon oii~inating in both nations, <br />Because our Council lacks the author- <br />" lty to regulate harve~t se~sons, w.e ask ~ <br />, fishery managers to continue the,If <br />moratorium on c;ommerdal fishing for sum- <br />mer chinook, and to halt commercial harvest <br />of sockeye below the confluence of the <br /> <br />, <br /> <br />.. <br /> <br />Re~uce Fisbil1~ Limits <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> 100 <br /> 90 <br /> - 80 <br /> '~ <br /> Cl <br /> ~ <br /> ca/ 70 <br /> U <br /> c <br /> 0 <br /> E 60 <br /> (ij <br /> 11l <br /> '0 50 <br /> E '40 <br /> Q) <br /> e <br /> Q) <br />.. a.. 30 <br /> 20 <br /> ,10 <br /> 0 <br /> <br /> <br />rial! <br /> <br />\ <br /> <br />'Harvest Protection for <br />Snake Riv~r.Salmon <br /> <br />Snake River sdckeye are <br />caught mostly in the <br />Columbia River, while <br />Snake River fall chinook <br />harvests are greatest at sea. <br />We call fpr important <br />harvest-reductions in both <br />fisheries. <br /> <br />Haryest rates on Snake' <br />River spring and summer <br />chinook already are low, <br />and we ask tHat they be <br />kept at or below Ithose low <br />levels. " <br /> <br />" <br /> <br />1933 <br />Rock Island Dam near Wenatchee is the <br />first dam comPleted across the Colum- <br />" bia. .construction of Grand <br />Coulee Dam begins. <br /> <br />I <br />25 <br />