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Annual Washington state fisheries plan goes to federal review By Kimberly Cauvel, Skagit Valley Herald Published: April 20, 2021, 7:41am Share: The state Department of Fish & Wildlife announced late last week that it has reached a draft agreement with co-managing tribes for this year’s fisheries. With continued low returns of chinook salmon, including for the Skagit and Stillaguamish rivers, river and marine fisheries within Puget Sound are expected to again be restricted. “Setting seasons for Puget Sound is always a challenge … We worked very hard this year to preser...

Here's what state Fish and Wildlife says about 2021 Nooksack salmon runs The Bellingham Herald 3/8/2021 Robert Mittendorf, The Bellingham Herald (Bellingham, Wash.) Mar. 8—Forecasts for this year's salmon runs show a doubling of spring chinook in the Nooksack River, giving room for hope even though the species remains threatened across the Puget Sound region, according to fisheries managers and environmental officials. Projected runs for 2021 show 7,540 spring chinook returning to the north fork of the Nooksack River, almost double the 3,949 fish that returned in 2020, acc...