March 26th, 2008
Canneries lined the banks of the Columbia between The Dalles and the sea. Samuel Elmore, Ben Young, Frank Warren, and Frank Seufert were major players in the salmon canning business.
The trick was to move quickly when new technology gave advantage. Laborers caught the fish in traps, seine nets, set nets, and at fishwheels whose paddles scooping with the current pulled salmon, sturgeon, eels, and steelhead from the river and dumped them into fish boxes headed for a cannery.
This picture is circa 1870’s……
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March 26th, 2008
Anglers showing up in droves for chinook fishery on Columbia
JEFFREY P. MAYOR; jeff.mayor@thenewstribune.com
Published: March 26th, 2008 01:00 AM
The spring chinook fishery on the Columbia River is attracting plenty of anglers. There were 900 boats and 103 bank anglers counted during a flyover Saturday.
Slightly more than half the boats were between the Hayden Island power lines and the Portland International Airport tower.
This year’s boat count is twice as many as the same time the past couple years. During the flight and creel sampling March 24, 2007, a total of 421 boats were counted from the Interstate 5 bridge downstream. There were 510 boats counted during the March 26, 2006 flight.
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