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Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife releases year-end fishing numbers
Ocean Salmon: The 2008 ocean chinook seasons were the most restrictive and had the lowest total catch on record. Total recreational chinook landings came in at approximately 1,700 fish, compared to the long-term (1979-2007) average of 25,200 chinook. The lowest catch in any prior year was in 1998, with 4,000 chinook landed. The commercial troll chinook landings are expected to total less than 6,000 chinook, as compared to the long-term (1979-2007) average of 202,200 chinook and the lowest prior annual landings of 25,300 in 1994.
Sport fishing for coho salmon resulted in total landings of 12,100 fish, which was the lowest total landings since selective (hatchery-only) coho retention went into effect in 1999. The 1999-2007 average recreational coho landings totaled 50,300. Total ocean salmon recreational fishing effort was also down with only 30,200 angler trips, as compared to the 1999-2007 average of 96,900 trips.
Sport Tuna: Total landings in the 2008 recreational albacore season off Oregon were the second best on record, with 24,300 albacore tuna landed by 7,100 angler trips. Weather and high fuel prices were significant limiting factors to the fishery, however, the growing interest in this very exciting fishery resulted in angler trips being more than double the long-term average. Catch per unit of effort was average at 3.4 albacore per angler trip.
Recreational Pacific halibut: Anglers landed more than 15,100 Pacific halibut in 2008 - 1,300 fewer fish than in 2007, which was the most successful year on record for Pacific halibut. The reduction was expected because the quota set by the International Pacific Halibut Commission was reduced from last year.
Sport bottomfish: Black rockfish are the backbone of the Oregon sport groundfish fishery. They make up about 75 percent of Oregon's sport groundfish landings - more than 250,000 fish in 2007. The 2008 season started with a daily bag limit of six groundfish and two lingcod, similar to 2007. The daily bag limit and an offshore groundfish closure from April through September were designed to keep catches below federal harvest guidelines and state landing caps, while maintaining a year-round fishery. One state cap has been reached in-season in 2008: cabezon (which required an in-season, non-retention rule). Because of higher than expected incidental catch of yelloweye rockfish - a species with depleted abundance - the groundfish fishery closed seaward of 20-fathoms from July 7 through Sept. 6. Also during that period, the daily bag limit was reduced to five fish. Angler effort targeting groundfish is up in 2008 largely due to limited salmon opportunity.
Sport crabbing: Recreational crabbers now have access to catch-per-crabber survey information for five of Oregon's most popular crabbing bays. The recently launched “Crabbing Reports” page on ODFW's website provides data from the Recreational Bay Crab Survey for the five bays that are sampled: Tillamook Bay, Netarts Bay, Yaquina Bay, Alsea Bay and Coos Bay. The data on catch statistics are updated about every two weeks at www.dfw.state.or.us/MRP/shellfish/crab/reports.asp.
Commercial dungeness crab: Commercial dungeness crab landings for the 2007-08 season, which ended Aug. 14, totaled 12.3-million pounds, with an ex-vessel value of $29 million. Industry efforts now focus on retrieving gear, and ODFW adopted a temporary rule to allow any commercial fishing vessel to bring in lost or derelict gear through the end of October.
Jim's Fishing Charters
www.JimsFishing.com
http://ca.youtube.com/user/Sushihunter250
Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife releases year-end fishing numbers
Ocean Salmon: The 2008 ocean chinook seasons were the most restrictive and had the lowest total catch on record. Total recreational chinook landings came in at approximately 1,700 fish, compared to the long-term (1979-2007) average of 25,200 chinook. The lowest catch in any prior year was in 1998, with 4,000 chinook landed. The commercial troll chinook landings are expected to total less than 6,000 chinook, as compared to the long-term (1979-2007) average of 202,200 chinook and the lowest prior annual landings of 25,300 in 1994.
Sport fishing for coho salmon resulted in total landings of 12,100 fish, which was the lowest total landings since selective (hatchery-only) coho retention went into effect in 1999. The 1999-2007 average recreational coho landings totaled 50,300. Total ocean salmon recreational fishing effort was also down with only 30,200 angler trips, as compared to the 1999-2007 average of 96,900 trips.
Sport Tuna: Total landings in the 2008 recreational albacore season off Oregon were the second best on record, with 24,300 albacore tuna landed by 7,100 angler trips. Weather and high fuel prices were significant limiting factors to the fishery, however, the growing interest in this very exciting fishery resulted in angler trips being more than double the long-term average. Catch per unit of effort was average at 3.4 albacore per angler trip.
Recreational Pacific halibut: Anglers landed more than 15,100 Pacific halibut in 2008 - 1,300 fewer fish than in 2007, which was the most successful year on record for Pacific halibut. The reduction was expected because the quota set by the International Pacific Halibut Commission was reduced from last year.
Sport bottomfish: Black rockfish are the backbone of the Oregon sport groundfish fishery. They make up about 75 percent of Oregon's sport groundfish landings - more than 250,000 fish in 2007. The 2008 season started with a daily bag limit of six groundfish and two lingcod, similar to 2007. The daily bag limit and an offshore groundfish closure from April through September were designed to keep catches below federal harvest guidelines and state landing caps, while maintaining a year-round fishery. One state cap has been reached in-season in 2008: cabezon (which required an in-season, non-retention rule). Because of higher than expected incidental catch of yelloweye rockfish - a species with depleted abundance - the groundfish fishery closed seaward of 20-fathoms from July 7 through Sept. 6. Also during that period, the daily bag limit was reduced to five fish. Angler effort targeting groundfish is up in 2008 largely due to limited salmon opportunity.
Sport crabbing: Recreational crabbers now have access to catch-per-crabber survey information for five of Oregon's most popular crabbing bays. The recently launched “Crabbing Reports” page on ODFW's website provides data from the Recreational Bay Crab Survey for the five bays that are sampled: Tillamook Bay, Netarts Bay, Yaquina Bay, Alsea Bay and Coos Bay. The data on catch statistics are updated about every two weeks at www.dfw.state.or.us/MRP/shellfish/crab/reports.asp.
Commercial dungeness crab: Commercial dungeness crab landings for the 2007-08 season, which ended Aug. 14, totaled 12.3-million pounds, with an ex-vessel value of $29 million. Industry efforts now focus on retrieving gear, and ODFW adopted a temporary rule to allow any commercial fishing vessel to bring in lost or derelict gear through the end of October.
Jim's Fishing Charters
www.JimsFishing.com
http://ca.youtube.com/user/Sushihunter250
