Action: Closes the Sol Duc, Bogachiel, Calawah, and Dickey rivers and all their tributaries, and upper 475 yards of the Quillayute River to all fishing.

Effective date: Aug. 1, 2015, until further notice.

Species affected: All species.

Location: The Dickey River, Sol Duc River, Calawah River, Bogachiel River and all tributaries. The Quillayute River from the confluence of the Sol Duc and Bogachiel Rivers downstream 475 yards to fluorescent orange paint on rocks.

Reason for action: Low water and higher than normal water temperatures are causing a delay in migration and increased stress on wild salmon returning to the Quillayute system, making them more vulnerable to fishing pressure. This is likely to remain a problem until stream flows increase. The Quileute Tribe has also closed its fishery for two weeks, and will re-assess the situation at that time. These closures are needed to protect wild chinook and coho salmon.

Information contact: Mike Gross, District 16 Fish Biologist, (360) 249-1210 or David Low, Fish Biologist (360) 249-4628 ext. 1216

https://fortress.wa.gov/dfw/erules/efishrules/erule.jsp?id=1647

Saw that coming. Complements to the tribe for following WDFW lead. I wonder why they didn't close all of it.

For those of you that don't know, about 13 years ago we didn't get good rain until mid November. WDFW shut down the whole system (later than now) but the tribe kept on netting. It took a group of guides and other concerned individuals to do a "fish in" that hit the papers and tv stations. That put pressure on the tribe at the time and they stopped netting as well.

Don't be surprised to read about inmates digging trenches on some of the systems over there. It's happened at least 2-3 times that I know of.

Blu they've already started at the duc diversion: http://www.king5.com/media/cinematic/video/30814997/river-diverted-to-help-salmon/

Good project....I also like the "free labor", should be more things fr inmates to get involved doing........

Cleaning boat launches, comes to mind.........

thaxor

Thanks for pointing that out. That was cool to see. I hadn't even thought about there.