Public input sought on marine reserve teams
The Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife and Oregon Sea Grant will host a public meeting in Newport next week to take comments on the process of forming three marine reserve teams. The meeting is scheduled from 1 to 4 p.m., Tuesday, Sept. 22, at th...
 1.0K - Sep. 16, 2009; scored 1000.0 Researchers make maps of seafloor
FLORENCE (AP) A survey of the ocean floor off the Oregon coast is under way to provide detailed undersea maps to help protect marine habitat. The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration and Oregon State University will study water depths, s...
2.4K - Aug. 19, 2009; scored 249.0 Marine reserves win OK
SALEM - All that's preventing Oregon from setting up the state's first two fishing-free marine reserves off the coast is Gov. Ted Kulongoski's signature. Talk to anyone involved in the process and all indications are these two reserves will sail into...
2.5K - Jun. 18, 2009; scored 289.0 Oregon Outdoor Report: Controlled hunt sale ends June 1
Column by Richard DeChambeau Don t forget that Monday is the last day to purchase your license and apply for a controlled hunt tag. So far the online sale service is working, but it s slower than normal. The extension also will delay the controlled h...
4.2K - May. 30, 2009; scored 193.0 House approves marine reserves
GRANTS PASS - The South Coast is one step closer to having its first marine reserve, but a Coos Bay lawmaker says if the state doesn't pay for it, it will dissolve. The Oregon House approved establishment of Oregon's first two marine reserves - inclu...
3.8K - May. 29, 2009; scored 289.0 Port forms committee for marine reserves
Coos County residents are going to get a chance to voice their opinions about marine reserves thanks to a committee facilitated by the Oregon International Port of Coos Bay. The recommendation won't go so far as designating a marine reserve off Coos ...
3.8K - May. 28, 2009; scored 289.0 Oregon Outdoor Report: Good coho season announced
Great news has finally come from the Pacific Fishery Management Council. We have a significant ocean recreational coho salmon fishery south of Cape Falcon and starting June 20 through Aug. 31, or until a quota of 110,000 fin-clipped coho are caught, ...
4.2K - Apr. 11, 2009; scored 193.0 ODFW predicts Coho will be abundant along coast
SALEM (AP) - The Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife says sport fishermen can expect a good year for coho salmon off the Oregon Coast. The officials said Friday that will be a bright spot in 2009, the second straight year of no commercial fishery ...
0.7K - Apr. 11, 2009; scored 306.0 Trollers want big season for sport fishermen
COOS BAY - The talk was of zeros and giving everything away: Zero fishing for commercial salmon fishermen on the ocean this year and letting sport fishermen have as much fish as possible. The Pacific Fishery Management Council held a hearing Monday n...
3.9K - Mar. 31, 2009; scored 193.0 Ocean salmon season meeting Monday
The Pacific Fishery Management Council will host a public hearing in Coos Bay on March 30 to review options for the upcoming ocean salmon seasons off the Oregon Coast. In recent meetings, the PFMC announced the strongest hatchery coho abundance forec...
2.1K - Mar. 26, 2009; scored 306.0 Fishery managers seek comments
The Pacific Fishery Management Council will host a public hearing in Coos Bay on March 30 to review options for the upcoming ocean salmon seasons off the Oregon Coast. In meetings the week of March 9, the PFMC announced the strongest hatchery coho ab...
3.0K - Mar. 23, 2009; scored 387.0 Elk, Coquille rivers best for steelhead
Column by Richard DeChambeau As our local South Coast rivers drop back into shape, anglers are continuing to catch nice, bright, winter steelhead. Again the South Fork Coquille River seems to be leading the way with better numbers of steelhead in thi...
4.2K - Mar. 21, 2009; scored 387.0 California salmon season prospects dim; limited in Oregon
SEATTLE (AP) - There won't be much of a salmon season for fishermen off the California coast for the second year in a row. The Pacific Fishery Management Council adopted three options Thursday for this year's ocean salmon season at a meeting in Seatt...
5.5K - Mar. 13, 2009; scored 387.0 Trollers want disaster leftovers
NEWPORT Of the $170 million in disaster money destined for West Coast salmon fishermen and related businesses last year, about $50 million is left and Oregon trollers are going after it. Though the $170 was divvied betw...
2.1K - Mar. 2, 2009; scored 193.0 Salmon numbers rise, but not nearly enough
GRANTS PASS West Coast salmon fishermen can expect another lousy fishing season the third in a row. The Pacific Fishery Management Council said Wednesday that there are barely enough Chinook returning to California s Sacramento River to spawn a n...
3.5K - Feb. 26, 2009; scored 306.0 Rain should get steelhead moving
Column by Richard DeChambeau We finally got the rain we needed and our rivers are on the rise! As they start to clear we should see steelhead fishing greatly improve. Tenmile Lakes has a large school of steelhead entering the lakes up the fish ladder...
4.6K - Feb. 14, 2009; scored 193.0 Spring-like conditions can make for tricky fishing
Column by Richard DeChambeau Our recent weather seems more like early spring conditions than the middle of winter! It has caused our rivers to drop down rapidly and forced the steelhead to hold up in deeper holes and slots. This makes for some tricky...
5.2K - Jan. 17, 2009; scored 193.0 Halibut seasons open for discussion
The Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife will discuss the 2009 Pacific halibut sport season during a public meeting in Newport next week. The hearing is set for 7 p.m. Thursday, Jan. 22, at the Embarcadero Hotel, 1000 SE Bay Blvd., Newport. ODFW ha...
1.1K - Jan. 16, 2009; scored 306.0 Two marine reserves OK d for coast
LINCOLN CITY It s all in the governor and state s hands now. The Ocean Policy Advisory Council is sending two marine reserve pilot projects, three slightly modified plans and the suggestion for a bottom-up approach for an area off Cape Arago to the...
5.4K - Nov. 19, 2008; scored 573.0 | 
