URGENT: Sports get coho-only season; trolling closed

By Susan Chambers, Staff Writer
Friday, April 11, 2008 | 1 comment(s)

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SEATTLE - As far as ocean salmon fishing goes in California and Oregon, Oregon is it.

The Pacific Fishery Management Council on Thursday night approved a coho fishery only - and only 9,000 fish - for sport fishermen between Cape Falcon, near Manzanita, and the California border.

  No commercial trolling.

 No genetic stock identification study.

 Last year, sport fishermen between Cape Falcon and the California border caught 9,000 coho by early July

“I applaud our state for working as hard as it did to get us some fish,” Prowler Charters owner Wayne Butler, of Bandon, said. “I’ve heard the saying, ‘every fish counts.’ This is going to be a good example of that. Opportunity is a big thing.”

That “every fish counts” phrase wasn’t intended to mean those fish counted for fishing businesses. California Department of Fish and Game representative to the council Marija Vojkovich meant that every fish counts toward keeping the extremely low run of Sacramento River fall Chinook healthy.

That phrase, and the votes that followed it, caused a volley of fireworks as members of the Oregon delegation tried three times to pass a motion that would allow some scientific study and some opportunity for sport fishermen.

Read all the details in Friday’s issue of The World.

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Outofpatience wrote on Apr 11, 2008 9:39 AM:

The numbers will never increase until the massive trollers are stopped from emptying the unregualated international waters, natural predators are kept in check (sea lions, seals, Merganzer ducks!), and the government keeps its nose out of the hatchery programs. It is pretty clear that the run will not recover on its own, a broad and sweeping hatchery program is essential!

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