By GARRET JAROS/YachatsNews NEWPORT – Fishermen with callused hands and vise-like grips worked steadily along Newport’s docks this week to prepare boats and gear in a final push before […]
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Agencies place 700 big trees in Coast Range streams to restore habitat and help salmon, steelhead thrive
By GARRET JAROS/YachatsNews FIVE RIVERS – The first warning of impending danger arrives with the distant thrum of slapping blades that quickly gives way to the rhythmic thumping of […]
Fall Chinook season opened Thursday in coastal rivers with “pretty good” returns expected again this year
By QUINTON SMITH/YachatsNews The salmon should be there, it’s just a matter of whether the rains will cooperate this fall to allow for another reasonable fishing season on central […]
A wandering wolverine is back on the coast — and caught (then released) in a trap on the beach
By KAREN RICHARDS/KLCC News There was yet another wolverine encounter on the Oregon coast late last week – and this time visiting the beach where it was caught in […]
It’s been a good season for Oregon’s Dungeness crab fleet with strong prices and four more months to go
By GARRET JAROS/YachatsNews Oregon’s 2024-24 commercial Dungeness crab season is proving quite successful five months into the season. Fishermen have hauled in 23.8 million pounds of crab so far, […]
ODFW officials confirm central Oregon coast has a very unusual spring break visitor — a wandering wolverine
By GARRET JAROS/YachatsNews The rarest of spring break visitor – a first so far as wildlife officials know – is making its way south along the central Oregon coast. […]
Crab boats light up the night ocean as they drop pots Wednesday in preparation for first pull Saturday
By GARRET JAROS/YachatsNews The white lights of fishing boats shimmered under a purple dawn in an unbroken string along Oregon’s central coast Wednesday as Dungeness crab fisherman prepared to […]
Much of Oregon’s Dungeness crab fishery opens next week; negotiations begin Sunday in Newport on prices
BY GARRET JAROS/YachatsNews Oregon’s commercial Dungeness crab fishery will open next Saturday from just south of Depoe Bay to the California border but will be delayed until at least […]
Off-season crabbers remove hundreds of derelict commercial pots from the ocean to protect whales, marine life and other boats
By GARRET JAROS/YachatsNews The morning sun casts orange peels across a blue-green sea as the Das Bug pulls alongside a buoy floating high above a commercial crab pot buried […]
Ready to try clamming? Just follow these intrepid coastal foragers to discover the mud, the fun — and the rewards
By GARRET JAROS/YachatsNews NEWPORT — With garden rakes and mesh bags in hand, the small band of foragers set off through the low-tide muck of Yaquina Bay. Meredith Howell […]