News and Highlights: 2006 - Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife:

Sport anglers may no longer retain vermilion rockfish

NEWPORT ......Beginning Monday July 24, saltwater sport boat anglers may not retain vermilion rockfish. Fishing for other bottomfish - such as most rockfish species, lingcod, cabezon and greenling - remains open.

LAST CHANCE..........NEED TO KNOW

If you have not yet responded and plan on going on the Siletz fish trap, please respond to Wayne Hill via email.

We plan on meeting at the LVH Clubhouse at 8:00 a.m. to carpool and then proceed to the entrance of Moonshine Park to meet and caravan to the Siletz fish trap. Bring a lunch and drink. We will return about 2 p.m.

If you didn't make it to the meeting today, you missed a great meeting. Casey Deckard gave a very good presentation regarding fish in the Siletz River with particular attention to the summer steelhead. We were able to obtain some good information on this fishery.

REMINDER

Meeting this Thursday @ 9:00 a.m. at the Longview Hills Clubhouse. We will have Casey Deckard from ODFW give us a presentation on the Siletz fish trap.

Then on the following day--Friday--we will meet at the Longview Hills Clubhouse at 8:00 a.m. for a trip to the Siletz fish trap. We will discuss this in more detail at the Thursday meeting. We do know that we will need to carpool in as few vehicles as possible due to the heavy log truck traffic between Moonshine and the trap. The plan is to leave at 8 and will return about 1 or 2 p.m.

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Newport News-Times: Tuna time:


Mike Morgan began selling fresh-caught albacore tuna off his vessel, the White Swan III, last week. When the News-Times was at the dock in South Beach, Michael Gentzkow, director of clinical services at Samaritan Pacific Communities Hospital, was ordering 60 pounds of tuna.
(Photo by Joel Gallob)

News and Highlights: 2006 - Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife:

Mid-Columbia steelhead group meets in The Dalles

THE DALLES........ The mid-Columbia Steelhead Sounding Board, a stakeholder group providing input on recovery planning for mid-Columbia Steelhead listed as threatened under the Endangered Species Act, will meet July 26 from 9 a.m. until 4 p.m. at The Dalles Screen Shop/Hood River Research building, 3561 Klindt Drive.

News and Highlights: 2006 - Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife:

Domoic acid levels close Clatsop Beach to razor clamming

Date:July 13, 2006
ASTORIA State fishery and agricultural officials today announced that Clatsop Beach is closed to razor clamming effective immediately.
The closure is due to recent testing of domoic acid levels by the Oregon Department of Agriculture which revealed amounts above the 20 parts per million (ppm) level that triggers a closure. Domoic acid is a natural toxin produced by algae blooms that can remain in razor clams' edible tissues for many months before being purged.

The Guide's Forecast Newsletter
Volume 7, Issue 53
Forecasting for the fishing week of July 7th, – July 13th, 2006, 2006
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Washington Fisheries Update
Oter tid bits...
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Send TGF a photo with a description and we'll post it on The Guide's Forecast. Left to right is Marty, Joe, and Jimmy Angelo with 33, 23, and 18 pound summer Chinook caught near Ives Island below Bonneville Dam on July 6th.

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Seals to Lose Free Lunch?

Sea lions and seals have perfected the art of finding the easy meal in the Pacific Northwest. Oregon community to haze, without harming
The seals and sea lions that populate the Rogue River bay are well schooled in how simple it is to score an easy salmon meal. They hang out at the fish-cleaning stations waiting for carcasses to come down a discharge pipe. Or they patrol the bay waiting for anglers to hook chinook, which they steal right off of the lines. Hopefully for anglers, hazing efforts will put an end to their free lunch.

SOLV Oregon Adopt-A-River:

Oregon Adopt-A-River Date: Year-Round..............

Oregon Adopt-A-River helps volunteers clean up and preserve Oregon waterways, and learn the importance of watershed health and a good stewardship ethic. Volunteers adopt their favorite stretch of waterway (river, lake, or stream) anywhere in the state of Oregon. Volunteers generally adopt a minimum of two miles of waterway and do cleanup projects twice a year for two years. Many volunteers do much more!

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Send TGF a photo with a description and we'll post it on The Guide's Forecast. Photo - It took McMinnville angler Lee Leavitt 15 minutes to land this 32-inch steelhead on four-pound- test line June 24th on the North Santiam. He credits his success to a boat ride offered by a courteous stranger who turned out to be John Wiltsey, a well known northwest rod builder (Photo by Bruce Leavitt).

Help For West Coast Fishing Industry, Economic Disaster Declaration Near For Salmon Fishermen In Oregon And California - CBS News

Help For West Coast Fishing Industry, Economic Disaster Declaration Near For Salmon Fishermen In Oregon And California - CBS News: "

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Help For West Coast Fishing Industry
Economic Disaster Declaration Near For Salmon Fishermen In Oregon And California

GRANTS PASS, Ore, July 7, 2006
salmon in californiaCalifornia Department of Fish and Game fisheries biologist Mark Hampton examines a dead chinook salmon, Nov. 12, 2004, on Bogus Creek, a tributary of the Klamath River near Hornbrook, Calif. (AP Photo)

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'We will move quickly to implement both a short- and long-term effort to find ways to help.'
Secretary of Commerce Carlos Gutierrez


(AP) Secretary of Commerce Carlos Gutierrez has agreed to take the first steps toward declaring an economic disaster for salmon fishermen in Oregon and California, whose season has been virtually shut down to protect dwindling returns to the Klamath River.

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NOTICE: Check out the above calendar for July happenings with the Longview Hills Fishing Club. No Schedule yet for the Monthly Big Creek Litter Patrol, but will be a notice on this web site when the date is decided on.

News and Highlights: 2006 - Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife:

Public invited to STEP Advisory Committee meeting in La Grande July 14-15

Date:July 5, 2006
Contact:Dan Knoll, (503) 947-6023
Fax: (503) 947-6009

SALEM ......... The public is invited to attend the Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife's Salmon and Trout Enhancement Program (STEP) Advisory Committee meeting July 14-15 in La Grande.

BBC NEWS | UK | England | Essex | Huge marine wetland starts life

BBC NEWS | UK | England | Essex | Huge marine wetland starts life: "Huge marine wetland starts life
Wallasea Island breach
The sea pours through the defence breach at Wallasea Island
A 300m section of a sea wall has been breached to begin the creation of the UK's largest man-made marine wetland.

Almost 115 hectares has been flooded at Wallasea Island, Essex, to create wetland, mudflats, saline lagoons and seven artificial islands."

Corvallis Gazette-Times News:

Oregon gets small win on salmon disaster funding..............

WASHINGTON (AP) The House approved $2 million Wednesday for salmon fishermen suffering from a sharply curtailed fishing season because the government is more tightly limiting their catch.
The money is a fraction of the $81 million West Coast lawmakers want. But frustrated over the Bush administration's failure to declare a disaster to help the fishermen, lawmakers hope the vote will keep the door open to add more money later.

Newport News-Times: Port of Newport likes Maritime & Heritage Center idea:

By Joel Gallob Of the News-Times
The Pacific Maritime & Heritage Center proposed by the Lincoln County Historical Society is not just about the history and culture of the central coast's original tribal inhabitants and its European-descendant explorers, settlers, loggers and fishers.

News and Highlights: 2006 - Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife:

Nuisance seal and sea lion control efforts set to begin on the Rogue River

Date:June 27, 2006
GOLD BEACH Officials today announced a plan to use non-lethal methods to control nuisance seals and sea lions on the Rogue River estuary beginning July 1.
The plan was created by the Curry Sportfishing Association (CSA) and Port of Gold Beach (Port) after numerous complaints from Gold Beach residents and visitors experiencing damage to their local salmon fishery and eonomy due to the nuisance mammals.
Seals and sea lions are actively taking anglers catches, damaging their gear, and causing property damage to boats, docks and marinas, said Mark Lottis of CSA. The community of Gold Beach has seen a steady increase over the last few years in the number of nuisance seals and sea lions.

KATU 2 - Portland, Oregon:

2 the Outdoors - Springer Fishing


SUMMER, 2006 - June mornings arrive so early that you're never quite sure you slept.
Anticipation is a part of it too. This June morning was the long-awaited fishing trip to catch a special salmon: coastal spring chinook or 'springer.

News and Highlights: 2006 - Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife:


Entire Oregon coast open to razor clamming for first time in nearly four years

NEWPORT ........ The last section of Oregon beach still closed to razor clamming will open Thursday, June 22 at 12:01 a.m., marking the first time in nearly four years that the entire Oregon coast is open.
Recent testing by the Oregon Department of Agriculture determined that domoic acid levels are within the safe range on the last remaining section of beach closed, from Otter Point near Gold Beach north to the Umpqua River jetty near Reedsport.
In October 2002, a large bloom of the algae that produces domoic acid forced the closure of all Oregon beaches to razor clamming. Closure occurs when toxins exceed an alert level of 20 ppm for domoic acid, a level that provides a margin of safety by halting harvest before toxins reach an amount that may cause human illness. Razor clams retain the natural toxin domoic acid in their edible tissues for many months before purging it.