Two Days of Recreational White Sturgeon Fishing Planned

Fishery managers from Oregon and Washington have scheduled two days of recreational white sturgeon fishing on the Columbia River below Bonneville Dam during the month of October.  Approved sturgeon retention days are Saturday, October 21 and Thursday, October 26.  The open area is the mainstem Columbia from the Wauna power lines, located 40 miles from the river mouth, upstream to the fishing deadline near Bonneville Dam.  The fishery is subject to a harvest guideline of 1,245 legal-sized white sturgeon.  Legal retention size is 44- to 50-inch fork length.  The bag limit is one legal-sized white sturgeon per day, and no more than two for the year.  This is the first sturgeon retention season between Wauna and Bonneville since 2013.

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