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, accounting for a catch valued at $88.9 … [Read more...] about It’s been a good season for Oregon’s Dungeness crab fleet with strong prices and four more months to go
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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. There have been multiple confirmed sightings of what is believed to … [Read more...] about ODFW officials confirm central Oregon coast has a very unusual spring break visitor — a wandering wolverine
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 drop their first pots of the 2023-24 … [Read more...] about Crab boats light up the night ocean as they drop pots Wednesday in preparation for first pull Saturday
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 Dec. 31 from Depoe Bay to the Washington … [Read more...] about Much of Oregon’s Dungeness crab fishery opens next week; negotiations begin Sunday in Newport on prices
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 in the sand below. Finding the random pots lost at sea … [Read more...] about Off-season crabbers remove hundreds of derelict commercial pots from the ocean to protect whales, marine life and other boats