Fish and Game fisheries biologists will be discussing insights from the previous years' Chinook salmon season, what this year's salmon return is projected to look like, and strategies we could use to manage this year's Chinook fisheries.
There's a reason why Chinook salmon are also known as king salmon ... In 2015, at a time of record-low Great Lakes water levels, Chinook salmon populations fell off a cliff — down 75% from their highs of just three years earlier.
IdahoFish and Game will be setting new seasons for upcoming spring and summer Chinook fisheries and gathering public input on the upcoming season proposals from Feb ... For more information, please visit the Fish and Game Chinook webpage.