Oregon public land officials have announced visiting and recreational activity costs are expected to increase while new permit systems limit access to large regions of backcountry. By The Associated Press SALEM (AP)…
Category: Fishing
Recreational crabbers required to mark buoys beginning Jan. 1, 2020
OIOpublisher Crabbers are reminded that effective Jan. 1, 2020, all surface buoys used with recreational crab pots or rings must be marked to identify the owner of the gear. The identifying information…
Coast Guard completes 5-hr tow of fishing vessel offshore Yachats, Ore. on Tuesday, Dec. 31st
A Coast Guard 47-foot Motor Lifeboat crew towed a disabled 52-foot commercial fishing vessel Tuesday night across the Yaquina Bay Bar approximately 2.5 miles northwest of Yachats, Oregon. Watchstanders at Coast Guard…
Oregon commercial crab fishery to open Dec. 31
NEWPORT, Ore.—Fresh Oregon crab is back on the menu soon—the commercial Dungeness crab fishery will open along all of Oregon’s coast on Dec. 31, 2019. Prior to the opener, crab vessels will…
Razor Clamming Closed Along Entire Oregon Coast for Elevated Domoic Acid Levels 12/13/19
All Razor Clamming Now Closed Along Entire Oregon Coast For Elevated Levels of Domoic Acid 12/13/19 The Oregon Department of Agriculture (ODA) and the Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife (ODFW) announce…
Additional Chinook mortality leads to North Coast fall salmon angling closure
December 11, 2019 – TILLAMOOK, Ore.: Following a recent die-off of fall Chinook salmon in the Wilson River, excessive pre-spawn mortality of fall Chinook in other nearby rivers has prompted fishery managers…
State Revising Plan that Protected Haystack Rock, Tillamook Head; Communities can propose additional protections starting in spring of 2020
Astoria, OR: Oregon’s north coast has some of the most beautiful and iconic rocky ocean shores in North America. Beloved Haystack Rock and Ecola State Park host important habitat for tidepool species…
Commercial Dungeness crab season delay continues until at least Dec. 31
NEWPORT, Ore. – Oregon Department of Fish & Wildlife announced today, December 6, 2019 that the opening of the commercial Dungeness crab season will be delayed until at least Dec. 31 along…
Die-off prompts ODFW to close Wilson River to salmon angling
TILLAMOOK, Ore. – A recent die-off of fall Chinook salmon in the Wilson River has prompted fishery managers to close the river to all salmon angling, effective Dec. 7 – 31. The…
Apply by Jan. 31 to serve on new Tillamook Bay Clam Advisory Committee: Find out more at Dec. 16 public meeting in Tillamook
ODFW seeks applicants for membership on the Tillamook Bay Clam Advisory Committee. The Committee will provide recommendations to ODFW on balancing commercial and noncommercial take of bay clams, physical boundaries for commercial…