SIUSLAW NEWS ❚ SATURDAY, APRIL 29, 2017
Pups
from 1B
may yank at our heartstrings,
but we often jeopardize matters
further by intervening in their
affairs.
Rice also pointed out that,
being wild animals, harbor
seals face myriad challenges to
reaching maturity, and pup
mortality is a natural check on
robust seal populations in our
region. Studies estimate that as
much as 50 percent of harbor
seal pups born in a given year
do not reach their first birthday.
Another reason to give seals
a wide berth is the possible
threat of disease, said Laura
Todd, Field Supervisor for the
Fishing
from 1B
closed for wild and hatchery
steelhead on March 31 to pro-
tect spawning wild steelhead
SILETZ RIVER: Steelhead,
Chinook
The Siletz River is open for
wild Chinook (1 per day and 2
per season). A few summer
steelhead are starting to be
caught in the lower river.
Steelhead fishing is fair. Drift
boaters are having success
from Moonshine Park to
Siletz and bank anglers are
catching hatchery fish in the
Siletz gorge.
Casting spinners, drifting
bait or using a bobber and jig
can be effective.
WILSON RIVER: Steelhead
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U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service
office in Newport.
“Seals and sea lions can har-
bor the bacteria responsible for
leptospirosis, a disease that
affects humans and dogs and
The Wilson is in decent
shape. Steelhead should be
winding down but there was
still some good fishing last
week, although mostly for
wild steelhead.
Coos River above Dellwood
will need a permit from
Weyerhaeuser.
In the Coos basin, one addi-
tional hatchery steelhead may
be retained per day for a total
aggregate of three adult fish
harvested daily.
Anglers are still catching a
few rockfish and surfperch
along the jetties and sub-
merged rock piles. Fishing for
rockfish in the bay has been
spotty. The marine fish daily
bag limit for bottom fish
(rockfish) is seven fish and a
separate daily limit for lingcod
(two).
The 7 fish marine bag limit
will remain in place, with
these adjustments for 2017:
Create a sub-bag limit of 6
black rockfish, remove the
sub-bag limit for canary rock-
fish, Add China/quillback/
copper rockfishes to the sub-
bag limit with blue/Deacon
rockfish and change the limit
from 3 to 4.
Finally remove the 10-inch
minimum size for kelp green-
ling. Retention of cabezon is
not allowed until July 1.
Recreational crabbing is
open inside the Coos Bay estu-
ary. Crabbing has been slow in
Coos Bay but crabbers will
need to sort through several
short crab to find keepers.
Recreational harvest of bay
clams remains open along the
entire Oregon coast.
Clamming is excellent dur-
ing low tides near Charleston,
off Cape Arago Highway, and
YAQUINA RIVER:
Steelhead
The Yaquina River and Big
Elk Cr. are closed for steel-
head fishing to protect spawn-
ing wild steelhead.
COOS RIVER BASIN:
Dungeness crab, bay clams,
rockfish, steelhead
Trout fishing in streams is
closed until May 22.
Most anglers have stopped
fishing for steelhead in the
Coos Basin. Rivers in the
Coos basin are open to steel-
head fishing until April 30.
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“Concerned observers itch-
ing to help can call the Oregon
Marine Mammal Stranding
Network Hotline at 541-270-
6830 if a pup is spotted,” said
Jim Burke, Director of Animal
Husbandry at the Oregon Coast
Aquarium. “Its staff can post
courtesy signs near the seal to
inform other beachgoers of the
situation.”
Stern warnings aside, find-
ing a harbor seal pup on the
beach can be an enchanting and
poignant experience. To keep
these creatures safe, watch with
binoculars or take pictures
from afar — let the seals take
care of themselves.
Clam Island. There are also
good places to dig clams even
on positive low tides in Coos
Bay.
Recreational harvest of
razor clams and mussels is
closed from the entire Oregon
coast due to elevated levels of
domoic acid.
This includes all beaches
and all bays. Before any shell-
fish harvest trip, make sure to
check the Oregon Department
of Agriculture website for any
updates.
day for a total aggregate of
three adult fish harvested
daily.
UMPQUA RIVER, SOUTH:
Steelhead
Anglers are still hooking
into a few hatchery fish. Pay
attention to river gages for the
South as it has been high and
unfishable a large portion of
the time this season. The
South Umpqua will likely be a
little high for most anglers this
weekend.
TENMILE BASIN: Trout,
bass, steelhead
Trout fishing in the streams
of the Tenmile Basin are
closed until May 22. Trout
fishing in Tenmile Lakes, Eel
Lake, Saunders Lake are open
all year. Anglers have been
catching trout in Eel and
Tenmile lakes trolling wedding
ring spinners tipped with a
worm.
Steelhead season is open in
Tenmile Creek and Eel Creek
until April 30. Steelhead fish-
ing has been very slow in the
Tenmile Basin. In the Tenmile
Basin, one additional hatchery
steelhead may be retained per
Milk Gallon
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Concerned observers
wanting to help can call
the Oregon Marine
Mammal Stranding
Network Hotline at
541-270-6830
if a pup is spotted
causes damage to the liver, kid-
neys and other organs.”
The bacteria are present in
the infected animal’s fluids,
including urine, and can easily
pass into surrounding water or
wet sand.
In general, the Oregon Coast
Aquarium is committed to the
rescue and rehabilitation of
indigenous wildlife when they
are deemed injured by human
interference.
But in the case of harbor seal
pups, humans should not be
approaching these animals in
the first place, and the aquari-
um advises the public to obey
marine mammal protection
laws and let nature take its
course.
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WINCHESTER BAY:
Bottomfish, perch
Fishing for bottom fish in
the Triangle and South jetty
has been successful.
PACIFIC OCEAN and
BEACHES: Bottomfish, surf
perch, crab
Recreational crabbing is
open along the entire Oregon
coast.
Bottom fishing has been
good when the ocean condi-
tions allow. Fishing for bottom
fish is now restricted to inside
the 30-fathom curve. A few
black rockfish have been seen
feeding on/near the surface
recently.
Recreational harvest of
razor clams is CLOSED on the
entire Oregon coast due to ele-
vated levels of domoic acid.
The recreational harvesting
of mussels is OPEN along the
entire Oregon Coast from the
Columbia River to the
California border. Before any
shellfish harvest trip, make
sure to check the Oregon
Department of Agriculture
website for any updates.
Surf perch fishing has been
good when ocean swells are
small. Surf perch anglers will
do the best fishing with sand
shrimp or Berkely Gulp sand
worms.
O CEAN S ALMON :
The ocean recreational
Chinook salmon fishery off
Oregon is currently open from
Cape Falcon to Humbug Mt.
Fishing effort and catch have
been slow so far.
B OTTOM F ISHING :
When the weather allows,
fishing during the winter and
spring months for lingcod and
rockfish can be fun and suc-
cessful. Last week there were
several reports of blue-colored
lingcod being caught along the
central coast.
These blue-colored lingcod,
sometimes called “Smurf ling-
cod” are safe to eat, the flesh
turns white when cooked, and
tastes the same as normal col-
ored lingcod. The blue col-
oration comes from a bile pig-
ment called biliverdin (also
responsible for some of the
coloration when people get a
bruise), but how or why this
pigment gets into the tissue of
lingcod is unknown, though
may have something to do
with what the lingcod is eat-
ing.
S URFPERCH :
Surfperch are a diverse
group of fish that provide a
variety of angling opportuni-
ties.
Striped seaperch are found
year-round in rocky areas like
jetties; and ocean surf is the
place to find redtail surfperch
and silver perch.
The bag limit for surfperch
is generous at 15 per day.
However, a lot remains
unknown about the status of
surfperch populations off the
Oregon Coast, so, as usual,
take only what you will use.
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