YAKIMA, Wash. - Sport anglers could catch more non-native trout in Lake Cle Elum and give sockeye a leg up in the process under a proposed change to fishery regulations.

A proposal that would provide fish passage at Lake Cle Elum Dam for the first time in more than a century has been released for public comment.

A ceremony that included native song, dance and a prayer for the future of the fish ended with the release of 100 sockeye salmon into Cle Elum Lake in Central Washington. Biologists plan to ...

Yakama tribal member Russell Jim pulled the ceremonial plug and in a matter of seconds, locally born sockeye salmon returned to Lake Cle Elum for the first time in a hundred years.

Sport anglers could catch more non-native trout in Lake Cle Elum and give sockeye a leg up in the process under a proposed change to fishery regulations.