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SIUSLAW NEWS ❚ SATURDAY, DECEMBER 23, 2017
Start planning for 2018 fishing, hunting seasons
SALEM — The new 2018
Oregon Sport Fishing and
2018 Oregon Big Game
Hunting Regulations are now
available at outdoor stores
and ODFW offices, or at
www.eregulations .com or
through its new recreation
website at MyODFW. com.
As of Friday, 2018 licenses
and tags are also on sale at
license sales agents most
ODFW offices and online.
Fishing and hunting licens-
es can make great gifts, espe-
cially for kids. Youth age 12
to 17 can fish (including
Columbia
River
Endorsement), hunt, crab and
clam all year for $10 with the
Youth License, or gift the
Sports Pac ($55) and add all
major hunting and fishing
tags/validations including
deer, elk, turkey, bear, cougar
and combined angling tag.
ODFW’s special big game
hunt raffle tickets also make
great stocking stuffers ($4.50-
$11.50 for chance to win a
special deer, elk, bighorn
sheep, pronghorn or Rocky
Mountain goat tag).
To give a license, tag or
other document as a gift, you
need the hunter or angler’s
full name and date of birth
(day, month, year).
If the person has had a
license before, make sure you
have their ODFW hunter/
angler ID number, which is
found at the top of their
license and stays the same
every year. If you are pur-
chasing for someone who has
never had a license, you will
need to provide their social
security number in compli-
ance with Federal and State
Laws.
What’s New for 2018
• Big Game Hunting: New
in the 2018 regulations, sig-
nificant changes are in yellow
highlighted text not red text,
consistent with fishing regu-
lations.
The only major regulatory
changes for hunters are the
extension of the age limit for
the Mentored Youth Hunt
Program to include 14- and
15-year-olds (goes into effect
Jan. 1), and a removal of the
cap on non-resident fall bear
tags.
Hunters will notice some
changes in the regulations as
staff have been working to
make the document easier to
follow and understand.
New this year, each species
follows the same standard
format and organization;
there are more maps and
tables and less text; and all
regulations for youth, veter-
ans and landowners are in one
place on new pages.
The changes are part of a
multi-year effort to simplify
Oregon’s Big Game Hunting
Regulations.
“Hunting regulations are
very important for the conser-
vation of species and safe/eth-
ical hunting practices, and we
want to make it as easy as
possible for hunters to under-
stand them,” said Nick Myatt,
ODFW
Grande
Ronde
Watershed Manager. “We are
in the process of revisiting
our regulations to simplify
overly complicated regula-
tions and eliminate unneces-
sary ones.
“Hunters will see addition-
al changes in coming years
ahead.”
• Fishing: New in the 2018
regulations, five rods or lines
are allowed when ice-fishing
for anglers with a two-rod
validation.
Other changes are noted in
yellow highlight throughout
the regulations.
Note that two rods are only
allowed when fishing in
lakes, ponds and reservoirs,
though the two-rod validation
may be extended to some
rivers and streams in 2018 if
conditions allow.
Fishing regulations have
also been reorganized for
clarity. New this year, rule
exceptions are consistently
organized and listed from the
mouth to the headwaters, with
each reach break identified,
so anglers can better under-
stand the regulations for each
section of the river they are
fishing.
Free Fishing Days for
2018: Under statute set by the
Oregon State Legislature,
ODFW can offer eight days
of free fishing each year.
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The 2018 days are sched-
uled for: Feb. 17-18
(Presidents’ Day Weekend),
June 2-3, Sept. 1-2 (Saturday
and Sunday of Labor Day
Weekend) and Nov. 23-24
(the
two
days
after
Thanksgiving).
While ODFW had original-
ly planned to offer free fish-
ing Dec. 31, 2017 through
Jan. 1, 2018, the department
has cancelled those dates to
stay within the eight-day limit
in 2018 and to offer free fish-
ing during months when fish-
ing conditions are better.
• Fee increase for 2018
Fees for some hunting and
fishing documents will
increase for 2018, as
approved by the Oregon State
Legislature when it passed
ODFW’s 2015-17 budget.
Typically, ODFW raises fees
once every six years but dur-
ing this six-year cycle, fee
increases are staggered with a
more modest fee increase
every two years.
For 2018, a hunting license
will increase by $1.50 to
$33.50, an annual fishing
license will increase by $3 to
$41 and a combination
license will increase by $4 to
$69.
The cost of juvenile licens-
es will stay the same as part
of efforts to make hunting and
fishing affordable for young
people and their families. For
a full list of the new fees visit
www.MyODFW.com.
New section re-opens
to recreational crabbing
The Oregon Department of
Agriculture and the Oregon
Department of Fish and
Wildlife announce that recre-
ational crabbing is now open
from Cape Blanco, north of
Port Orford, to the Columbia
River.
Crab samples taken from
the area indicate that levels of
the marine biotoxin domoic
acid have dropped below the
alert level.
This reopening of the recre-
ational season applies to crab
harvested in the ocean and in
bays and estuaries, and on
beaches, docks, piers, and jet-
ties. Recreational crab harvest-
ing remains closed along the
southern Oregon coast from
Cape Blanco to the California
border due to elevated levels
of domoic acid.
Crab and shellfish products
sold in retail markets and
restaurants remain safe for
consumers.
It is always recommended
to eviscerate the crab and dis-
card the “butter” (viscera or
guts) prior to cooking. When
whole crab are cooked in liq-
uid, domoic acid may leach
into the cooking liquid.
It is recommended to dis-
card the cooking liquid, and do
not use it in other dishes, such
as sauces, broths, soups, stews,
stocks, roux, dressings, etc.
The consumption of crab
viscera is not recommended.
For more information, call
ODA’s shellfish safety infor-
mation hotline at 800-448-
2474 or visit the ODA shell-
fish closures web page at
www.oda.direct/Shellfish
Closures.
Local horse club returning for
young equestrians next month
C&M
Stables
has
announced the Horse Club for
equestrians between ages of 6
and 18 will begin its second
session of the 2017-18 school
year.
The weekly one-hour pro-
gram enables Horse Club
members to build on the skills
learned in the previous weeks
and use hands-on techniques
to learn safety around horses,
grooming and riding.
The afterschool classes last
for 15 weeks, beginning the
week of Jan. 29, and ending
the week of May 13.
To sign up for Horse Club,
stop by C&M Stables, 8 miles
north of Florence at 90241
Highway 101, between the
hours of 10 a.m. and 5 p.m.,
seven days a week.
For more information, call
the stables at 541-997-7540.
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