Preliminary Numbers for the 2019 Columbia River Spring Chinook Season

 

Columbia River Adult Salmon Returns: Actual and Forecasted *

2018

Forecast

2018

Return

2019

Forecast

Total Spring Chinook

Willamette River

Sandy River

Select Areas**

Cowlitz River

Kalama River

Lewis River

Lower River Total

Wind River**

Drano Lake/Little White Salmon River**

Hood River**

Hood River wild **

Klickitat River**

Yakima River**

Umatilla River**

Mid-Columbia total (by subtraction)

Upper Columbia (total)

Upper Columbia wild

Snake River Spring/Summer (total)***

Snake River wild ***

Upriver Total

Summer Chinook              Upper Columbia

Sockeye Total Sockeye

Wenatchee

Okanogan

Yakima

Deschutes

Snake River

248,520

53,820

5,400

12,300

5,150

1,450

3,700

81,820

5,300

10,200

2,500

120

1,990

7,000

6,300

39,200

20,100

3,400

107,400

18,500

166,700

67,300

99,000

25,700

72,600

50

50

600

176,642

37,441

4,733

9,887

4,000†

2,300†

3,200†

61,561

3,109

7,352

2,026

667

3,155

3,257

34,641

12,844

1,977

67,596

11,339

115,081

42,120

210,915

297

157,530

40,200

5,500

8,200

1,340

1,440

1,550

58,230

2,800

5,600

2,300

1,100

3,000

n/a

40,000

11,200

2,100

48,100

8,200

99,300

35,900

94,400

18,300

74,500

1,300

100

200

* Components may not sum to totals shown since individual forecasts are not available for all upriver spring Chinook tributaries. Wild components are included in the stock total.

** Return to tributary mouth.

*** 2018 return is based on standard TAC run reconstruction methodology.

† 2018 returns to the Cowlitz, Kalama, and Lewis rivers are to the tributary mouth and are not directly comparable to the forecasts. These values will be updated when estimates for the return to the Columbia River mouth are available.

12/14/2018

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