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Commercial fisherman Les Clark pulls a sockeye, or blueback, salmon from his net while fishing on the Columbia River near Skamania, Wash. on June 30, 2008. It's the first time Clark has been able to fish for coho in more than 20 years. An abundant run of coho has allowed limited commercial fishing this summer.
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Commercial fisherman Les Clark watches his net as he manuvers his boat while fishing for sockeye salmon on the Columbia River near Skamania, Wash. on June 30, 2008. Clark hasn't fished for sockeye for more than 20 years but an abundant run of sockeye allowed a limited six-hour-long fishery that day.
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Commercial fisherman Les Clark pilots his boat up the Columbia River from Washougal, Wash. on June 30 as he heads out to fish for sockeye salmon on June 30, 2008. It's the first time in more than 20 years that he's fished for sockeye. An abundant coho run this summer is allowing limited commercial fishing.
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Commercial fisherman Les Clark pulls a just-caught sockeye salmon from his fishing net while fishing on the Columbia River near Skamania, Wash. on June 30, 2008. Clark, who's been fishing for more than 50 years, netted more than 30 sockeye during a special six-hour-long fishery on that day.
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Robin Ehlke places a just-caught sockeye salmon in a cooler with other salmon on June 30, 2008. Ehlke, a biologist for the Washington State Department of Fish and Wildlife, accompanied fisherman Les Clark during a special six-hour-long commercial sockeye fishery on the Columbia River to gather data about and monitor the fishery which was possible because of an abundant sockeye run this summer.
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Will Zack pulls a just-caught sockeye, or blueback, salmon from a hoop net on his family's fishing scaffold on the Columbia River just east of Bonneville Dam on June 30, 2008. Zack, a Yakama indian, will sell the salmon for about $7 a pound.
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Washington state biologist Robin Ehlke and commercial fisherman Les Clark examine a steelhead inadvertently caught by Clark June 30, 2008 as he fished for sockeye salmon on the Columbia River. Ehlke would clip a bit of fin from the fish and save it for DNA analysis as part of data collection about steelhead.
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"Will that be enough?" Paul Swan asks Sylvia Manheim as the two buy a freshly caught sockeye salmon from Jack Spencer at a fishing camp just east of Bonneville Dam on Columbia River on June 30, 2008. Sockeye, also known as bluebacks, sales have been good this summer, says Spencer, a Yakama indian.
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