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The commercial fleet’s first spring outing – four hours total on March 29 – on the mainstem Columbia River was marginally productive with a catch of less than 10 spring chinook salmon per boat. The states of Oregon and Washington, which co-manage mainstem fisheries, estimate that 1,263 chinook salmon and four sturgeon were sold in 150 deliveries to commercial buyers following the 7:30 to 11:30 pm. fishery. Approximately two-thirds of the fish sold were upriver spring stock bound for hatcheries and tributary spawning areas above B...