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Sacramento Chinook Caught in Columbia River by Staff The Columbian, June 11, 2015

NORTH BONNEVILLE -- A hatchery-origin chinook getting caught in the lower Columbia River is nothing unusual.

However, a chinook caught last week near Bonneville was far from the norm. It contained a coded-wire tag indicating it originated at Coleman National Fish Hatchery, which is on a tributary to the Sacramento River in California.

Not only that, it was a fall chinook.