Anglers pulled more than 107,000 salmon-eating predators out of the
Columbia and Snake rivers during the 1998 Bonneville Power Administration’s
Northern Pikeminnow Sport Reward season,
"We are extremely encouraged by the results of this program over
the past eight years," said John Skidmore of BPA’s fish and wildlife
office. "Over one-million predatory northern pikeminnow have been
removed from the Snake and Columbia rivers since 1990. As a result of these
removals, …