Lower Columbia Nontribal Gillnet Ban Bill Heard In Oly Committee
A bill to ban nontribal commercial gillnetting on the Lower Columbia as early as January 2025 attracted quite a bit of comment during a public hearing before a legislative committee in Olympia this afternoon.
Entire Oregon Coast, Estuaries Now All Open For Crabbing
ODFW and the state Department of Health announce that recreational crabbing is open coastwide, in bays and the ocean, and the South Coast commercial evisceration requirement is also dropped as marine toxin levels abate.