As you all know I have been watching the fish counts over Bonneville Dam, to see what the sockeye and summer run returns look like. I think we all know that the sockeye season is a bust, with the forecast now downgraded to 87,000. The summer run numbers are better, but as Chad Jackson, Fish Manager for Region 2 points out, you can’t just look at the total number over Bonneville to understand what a season would be like on the upper Columbia. “The number of Chinook that passed over Bonneville from June 1st to June 15th don’t count towards the run/forecast in the eyes of US vs OR. Those fish fall within the spring management period and count as “springers”. The pre-season forecast and all in-season run updates for summer Chinook are during the summer management period of June 16th to July 31st. What I am hearing is that summer Chinook are essentially tracking at the pre-season forecast of 41,000. That means that the Priest Rapids harvest allocation is still around 775”. Now you know probably more than you wanted to know about how the summer run return is managed within the constraints of US vs OR.