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ODFW REGIONAL
FISHING REPORT
www.dfw.state.or.us/RR
SIUSLAW RIVER: Cutthroat
trout, fall Chinook
Fall Chinook fishing remains
fair on the Siuslaw River. Some
fish have moved upstream with
the rains a few weeks ago and
now there are fish staging in the
estuary waiting for the next big
rain event. Expect more of the
same until we get more rain to
move the fish around as the sea-
son starts to wind down for the
year.
NOTE: Reminder, Lake Creek,
a tributary of the Siuslaw River,
is closed to all salmon angling
for the 2020 season due to low
forecasted returns in 2020.
Anglers are reminded that due
to low forecasted returns for the
2020 season bag limits have been
reduced. The bag limit for the
Siuslaw River is 1 wild Chinook
per day and 1 per year for the
2020 season.
Trout fishing in the Siuslaw
basin (including Lake Creek)
closes this weekend on Saturday
Oct. 31. This is still a great time
of year to target these often-over
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FISHING 3B
Tide Tables
Entrance Siuslaw River
High Tide
Low Tide
Nov. 10
7:58am / 6.7
7:41pm / 6.2
1:13am / 0.8
2:04pm / 2.5
PHOTOS BY MARK BRENNAN/SIUSLAW NEWS
Volunteers and vendors were on hand for last Sunday’s “Fill Your Pantry” food distribution event, held at Siuslaw Middle
School and hosted by thr Florence Farmers Market. More than 170 families collected food during the event.
Florence Farmer’s Market ends
season by filling pantries of others
By Mark Brennan
Siuslaw News
T
he Florence Farmers Mar-
ket staged its final event of
the season on Sunday (Nov. 8)
at Siuslaw Middle School. The
public responded, with many
more families placing orders for
food than had been anticipated
by volunteers.
During the “Fill Your Pantry”
distribution event, vendors of-
fered residents and supporters
of the market a last chance to
stock up on non-perishables,
dry goods and late-season veg-
etables. Orders needed to be
placed earlier in the week and
the products available included
honey, smoked salmon, fresh
produce, winter storage crops
and an assortment of desserts.
There were a number of vol-
unteers from the community on
hand to assist market personnel
with the packing, car delivery
and the line for pick-up, in-
cluding Environmental Man-
agement Advisory Committee
(EMAC) member Britte Kirch,
who is highly involved in with
the Farmer’s Market.
“The turn-out has been fan-
tastic, I think there were more
than 170 families that signed up
for food and we have probably
done close to $20,000 in sales,”
Kirsch said. “It is the perfect
way to end this season, which
was really successful, especial-
ly when you consider COVID
and the challenges around that
whole thing. It just goes to show
that people in our community
support the idea of the market
and we are going to have an
even bigger season next year.”
Nov. 11
8:40am / 7.3
8:51pm / 6.4
2:09am / 0.9
3:01pm / 1.5
Nov. 12
9:20am / 7.9
9:54pm / 6.7
3:01am / 1.0
3:53pm / 0.5
Nov. 13
10:00am / 8.4
10:51pm / 7.0
3:49am / 1.2
4:41pm / -0.5
Nov. 14
10:39am / 8.9
11:46pm / 7.2
4:35am / 1.5
5:28pm / -1.2
Nov. 15
11:20am / 9.1
5:21am / 1.8
6:15pm / -1.7
Nov. 16
12:40am / 7.2
12:02pm / 9.1
6:07am / 2.3
7:02pm / -1.8
Photo submissions sought for annual King Tides Project beginning Nov. 15
Every year in early win-
ter, high tides on the Ore-
gon coast are higher than
usual. These extreme high
tides, commonly called “King
Tides,” occur at a few specific
times during the year when
the moon’s orbit comes clos-
est to the earth, the earth’s or-
bit is closest to the sun, and
the sun, moon and earth are
in alignment — thereby in-
creasing their gravitational
influence on the tides.
These tidal events are also
known as perigean spring
tides.
Every winter for the past
decade, a growing network
of volunteer photographers
has documented the highest
point reached by these high-
est of tides. The hundreds of
photos they take capture a
moment in the interaction
between land and sea which
up till now has been rare, but
is likely to become far more
typical.
The images reveal current
vulnerabilities to flooding.
But even more important-
ly, they help visualize and
understand the coming im-
pacts of sea level rise (such
as flooding and erosion) to
coastal communities.
These tides are especially
important to document when
storm surges and high winds
and waves create even higher
water levels.
The volunteer photogra-
phers are participating in the
King Tides Project, the Ore-
gon branch of an internation-
al grassroots effort to docu-
ment coastal areas flooded
by the highest winter tides. In
2010, West Coast states, includ-
ing Oregon, began to document
their king tides; in 2012, the
project spread to the East Coast
and continues to expand today.
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