State wildlife officials said fishing on the North Umpqua River and its tributaries will be closed July 31 through November 30 due to low summer steelhead returns.
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State agencies and conservation groups claim the Winchester Dam in Roseburg, Oregon, is hazardous and further endangering Coho salmon. Owners of the dam say accusations are fabricated.
Declining salmon also imperiled Indigenous tribes’ ability to fish for subsistence — a major condition of their agreements to cede their land to the U.S. government and a right guaranteed in the treaties memorializing those deals.