Oregon Central Coast Wild Coho Fishery To Close After Sunday

The nonselective coho fishery off Oregon’s Central Coast will close at the end of this weekend, federal and state fishery officials just announced.

Chinook will remain in these waters that stretch from Cape Falcon south to Humbug Mountain, but with 58 percent of the upgraded 30,700-coho quota filled through last Sunday and a “reasonable likelihood” that the rest will be caught by the end of this week, “Managers agreed that the best approach is to close the fishery to retention of coho at the end of Sunday September 15, 2024,” ODFW stated.

A blog source indicated good catches out of Garibaldi yesterday and concern at the dock that the quota was going fast.

Originally, 25,000 coho were available for the September any-silver fishery, but 5,700 of the salmon from the summer season were tacked onto the balance in an impact-neutral rollover announced in late August.

Oregon Coast coho are an ESA-listed stock. Limited seasons in rivers there have begun or will begin shortly. See ODFW’s regulations update website for more.