Salmon angling closure on north coast of Oregon
12/16/2019 12:00:00 AM
CATEGORIES:
Plants & Wildlife
Relief, Response & Restrictions
Tourism & Recreation
Water Supply & Quality
AFFECTED AREAS:
Clatsop County, OR
Columbia County, OR
Tillamook County, OR
Start Date: 12/13/2019
- End Date: 12/31/2019
The recent die-off of fall Chinook salmon in the Wilson, Nestucca, Trask and Kilchis rivers near Tillamook prompted a total closure on salmon fishing on the north coast of Oregon. The fish deaths occurred before they were able to spawn as the parasite cryptobia proliferated, due to abnormally dry conditions allowing the parasite to spread, according to a district fish biologist for the Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife’s North Coast Watershed District. Shallow waters trapped salmon in small pools for an extended time, permitting leeches that carry the parasite to infect more fish than has ever been seen in the past. All salmon angling was closed in the Necanicum River basin, Nehalem Bay and river, Tillamook Bay and rivers and Nestucca Bay and river.
Salem Statesman-Journal (Ore.), Dec. 12, 2019
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