Preliminary Numbers for the 2019 Columbia River Spring Chinook Season
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Columbia River Adult Salmon Returns: Actual and Forecasted * |
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2018 Forecast |
2018 Return |
2019 Forecast |
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| 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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