Fishing

If HB 3568 passes, the state would spend roughly $800,000 to assist schools in acquiring seafood for students, training for school kitchen staff on seafood preparation and an education campaign to teach children about local fishing and shellfish harvesting.

A judge's decision adds to a complicated case over land ownership and tribal fishing rights.

In his first term, Trump opened up lands sacred to Native people for development, and rolled back dozens of environmental protections. Oregon Gov. Tina Kotek said she’ll stand with Oregon values as the White House changes hands again.

Pre-season testing has shown Dungeness crabs are too low in meat yield or contain the toxin domoic acid in some areas off the Oregon coast.

Many counties in Washington and Oregon have closed recreational shellfish harvesting with active toxic algal blooms in coastal waters that have also impacted commercial operations.

A massive fire broke out at a crab-landing facility in Pacific County on Monday, inflicting significant damage on the facility and destroying fishing gear ahead of Washington’s commercial Dungeness crab season.

Curt Melcher spent nearly 10 years at the helm of the agency, helping stabilize its budget while conserving and opening access to nearly 16,000 acres of wildlife and riparian habitat along the Minam River in northeast Oregon as well as 10,000 acres of the lower Deschutes River.

Oregon’s commercial fishing industry continued to have challenges in 2023 after seeing revenue drop by over $90 million the previous year. That means more families in the fishing industry have been leaning on the nonprofit group Newport Fishermen’s Wives.

U.S. Department of Commerce declared a Chinook fishery disaster for 2018, 2019 and 2020 when salmon populations plummeted.

Planned repair work on Winchester Dam near Roseburg, Oregon, has led to emergency salvage efforts for Pacific lamprey. It’s just the latest concern from environmentalists who are opposed to the dam on the North Umpqua River.