Tribe-led partnership could bring back Chinook salmon fishing to Coquille River this fall

Tribe-led partnership could bring back Chinook salmon fishing to Coquille River this fall

Anglers net a spring chinook while fishing near Davis Bar on the Columbia River the last Saturday of the 2010 season. For the first time in years, chinook salmon fishing could be allowed in the Coquille River this fall. (Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife/Flickr)This story originally appeared on Underscore Native News. After a four-year fishing ban on the Coquille River, the Coquille Indian Tribe and Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife (O…