[ODFW-News] New ocean rules in effect for Tillamook-area salmon anglers

[Odfw News]

For Immediate Release Thursday, May 5, 2005
 
New ocean rules in effect for Tillamook-area salmon anglers
 
TILLAMOOK - Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife officials today
reminded salmon anglers fishing in the ocean off the mouth of Tillamook
Bay to be aware of a change to the boundary of the popular spring
chinook fishery as well as a new bag limit. 
 
The boundary for the "Tillamook Triangular Control Zone," or "triangle,"
has been re-defined by the Oregon Fish and Wildlife Commission. The new
boundary is defined by a line extending from the green buoy
approximately one-half mile off the mouth of Tillamook Bay to Pyramid
Rock on the south and Twin Rocks on the north. The new boundaries are
permanent natural features that anglers should easily recognize.
Previously, the boundary lines extended to markers on the beach on
either side of the bay. 
 
"The change was necessary because maintaining the old marker signs had
become very difficult, particularly with extensive beach erosion north
of the bay," said Robert Bradley, an Oregon Department of Fish and
Wildlife fish biologist in Tillamook. 
 
Bradley said the new boundary expands the size of the triangle zone
somewhat, but it is not expected to substantially affect the fishery,
since the bulk of the spring fishery occurs around the mouth of the bay.
 
Anglers may retain adipose fin-clipped chinook in the triangle zone
through July 31. 
 
The bag limit for chinook salmon caught within the Tillamook Terminal
Area, an area from Pyramid Rock to Twin Rocks and out 3 miles, also
changes this year. Anglers no longer will be allowed to keep jack
chinook salmon within the terminal area. 

"Most small salmon caught in the ocean fishery are not truly jack
salmon, but immature fish that will remain in the ocean at least another
year," Bradley said. "This rule change allows those fish to grow larger,
and simplifies the regulations by making the daily bag limit in the
terminal area consistent with the rest of the ocean fishery." 
 
The new daily bag limit for the terminal area fishery is the same as the
general ocean bag limit of two adult salmon per day. 
 
The Commission made no changes to gear regulations or season bag limits
in the Tillamook-area fisheries. 
 
Pamphlets titled "2005 Oregon Ocean Regulations for Salmon, Halibut and
Other Marine Fish Species" contain the new regulations and maps. The
pamphlets will be available at ODFW offices and license agents in May.
The regulations also may be found on the ODFW Web site at
http://www.dfw.state.or.us/MRP/salmon/State_Waters_Index.html
<http://www.dfw.state.or.us/MRP/salmon/State_Waters_Index.html> 
 
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