Ten hours of commercial fishing for chinook and sockeye salmon will begin at 7 p.m. Wednesday in the Columbia River from Beacon Rock to the ocean.
State, federal and tribal biologists on Monday upgraded the spring chinook run size to 282,000.
Under management plans, the larger forecast makes more fish available for harvest by non-Indians.
The commercials have about 900 upper Columbia-Snake spring chinook available on their allocation. They are projected to catch about 650 on Wednesday night.
Sport-fishing is open in the Columbia with a two-fish daily limit of hatchery-origin chinook.
Washington and Oregon officials will meet by teleconference at 10 a.m. Wednesday to adopt a summer chinook commercial fishing period for next week.
