West Coast embarks on new wave of fishing
HARBOR The West Coast groundfish fleet has struggled to stay afloat during major cutbacks to reverse long-standing problems with overfishing and to protect the seafloor from damage caused by bottom trawling gear. They are now embarking, after years...
 4.5K - Sep. 8, 2009; scored 977.0 Fishermen fear loss of petrale sole
ASTORIA (AP) Oregon fishermen say they're nervous about the possibility that petrale sole, one of the most valuable Pacific Ocean groundfish, will be labeled overfished. An assessment shows the population of petrale sole is far below the federal "o...
2.6K - Aug. 10, 2009; scored 631.0 Feds ban krill fishing
No one fishes for krill off the West Coast, and federal fisheries managers want to keep it that way so the tiny shrimp-like creatures remain as plentiful as possible as food for whales, salmon, and seabirds. NOAA Fisheries Service on Monday issued a ...
0.9K - Jul. 13, 2009; scored 620.0 Projects, finances top Bandon candidate issues
Pleased with port efforts Wayne Butler Forty-eight-year-old Wayne Butler was born and raised in Bandon. Wayne Butler, Port of Bandon Position 1 candidate What qualifies you to be a port commissioner? Butler has worked for more than 30 years in the re...
5.7K - May. 15, 2009; scored 491.0 Klamath dam protesters return to Berkshire meeting
OMAHA, Neb. - A group representing American Indian tribes and commercial fishermen from California and Oregon that has protested at Berkshire Hathaway Inc. shareholder meetings in the past are back again this year. But this time the group will be pra...
3.9K - May. 1, 2009; scored 385.0 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 536.0 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 474.0 Chinook fishing season halted again in California
MILLBRAE - California's commercial Chinook salmon fishing season will be called off again after a record low number of the fish returned to the Sacramento River to spawn last year, federal fisheries managers announced Wednesday. The decision by the P...
4.0K - Apr. 9, 2009; scored 860.0 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 988.0 Chinook in Rogue River
Column by Richard DeChambeau Winter steelhead fishing has remained good on all the forks of the Coquille River system. I ve had reports of bright fish being caught, but the numbers of spawned-out steelhead are increasing. The Elk and Sixes rivers als...
4.2K - Mar. 28, 2009; scored 748.0 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 491.0 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 659.0 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 592.0 Report says salmon booms and busts tough to change
GRANTS PASS (AP) - Federal fisheries biologists say the 2008 collapse of salmon returning to California's Sacramento River was triggered primarily by climatic conditions that produced little food in the ocean, compounded by too much reliance on fish ...
4.3K - Mar. 19, 2009; scored 743.0 Fishing industry is going strong
Once again the news on the status of salmon stocks along the West Coast doesn't show much promise for a salmon season this year. In spite of this, the fishing industry remains an economic driver for jobs, and incomes along the coast. The 258 trawl ve...
1.6K - Mar. 18, 2009; scored 743.0 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 1000.0 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 385.0 Salmon seasons outlook mixed
NEWPORT From Astoria to Brookings, salmon fishermen came to Newport to hear officially what rumors already had delivered: sport and commercial Chinook seasons in Oregon are likely to be nil. There was some good news, amidst all the bad coho numbe...
4.9K - Feb. 27, 2009; scored 955.0 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 687.0 Steelhead biting on South Fork Coquille
Column by Richard DeChambeau Steelhead fishing in the Coos River system is still experiencing low and clear water conditions. It remains a very tough fishery with few fish being caught. The bright spot is the South Fork Coquille River. With the recen...
3.6K - Feb. 21, 2009; scored 564.0 | 
