This is a press release courtesy of the Oregon State PoliceThe Oregon State Police (OSP) Fish & Wildlife Division in The Dalles is seeking the public's assistance in locating the person or persons responsible for the unlawful waste of salmon, steelhead and other fish found Sunday in a hoop net in the Columbia River below the John Day Dam.
On September 7, 2008, OSP Senior Trooper Craig Gunderson located another net in the Columbia River containing fish that had gone to waste. This hoop net was found off a tribal scaffold near Giles French State Park just below the John Day Dam.
Senior Trooper Gunderson, with the assistance of Columbia River Intertribal Fisheries Enforcement Officer Mendoza, removed one catfish, one walleye, one Chinook salmon, one Coho salmon, one steelhead and four suckers. The fish appeared to have been in the net for approximately one week and were beyond salvage. The owner of the hoop net is unknown and there was no identification on it.
Although hoop nets are legal to use during tribal fisheries, subsistence fishing gear must be tended at all times and the waste of game fish is unlawful.
Anyone has information regarding this case is asked to contact Senior Trooper Gunderson at (541) 296-9646 or the OSP Northern Command Center dispatch at (800) 452-7888. Information may be kept anonymous.
Read the paper I wrote in 1989 during one of the initiative petition drives to eliminate the nets (
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