Only active or ongoing fishing, crabbing, and clamming updates from ODFW are shown here. Expired date windows are intentionally left out so the page stays useful in the field.
ODFW lists no temporary regulations for this zone. Permanent regulations remain in effect.
Coquille bait rules and Umpqua Chinook retention rules are currently changed from the printed booklet.
Bait is allowed year round in the listed Coquille waters.
Retention of all wild Chinook is prohibited.
Harvest is limited to one wild adult Chinook per day and ten wild adults for the season.
ODFW lists no temporary regulations for this zone. Permanent regulations remain in effect.
The Lower Deschutes spring Chinook season is open during the current date window.
The fishery is open for hatchery Chinook during the listed dates.
Wild, non-adipose-fin-clipped Chinook salmon must be released unharmed.
ODFW lists no temporary regulations for this zone. Permanent regulations remain in effect.
Lookingglass Creek is open for hatchery spring Chinook during the current date window, unless quotas close it first.
The listed reach is open for hatchery spring Chinook.
Unmarked wild Chinook salmon and bull trout must be released carefully and unharmed.
ODFW lists no temporary regulations for this zone. Permanent regulations remain in effect.
Current Columbia updates include Select Area bag-limit rules through June 15 and a mainstem sturgeon retention closure. Expired May 15-17 opener windows are omitted.
On days when the mainstem Columbia River below Bonneville Dam is open to Chinook retention, Select Area daily salmon and steelhead bag limits match the mainstem Columbia bag limits.
On days when the mainstem Columbia below Bonneville Dam is closed to Chinook retention, permanent Select Area salmonid bag limits apply.
Sturgeon retention is closed.
Catch-and-release sturgeon fishing is allowed.
ODFW points anglers to current ocean salmon, halibut, and bottomfish pages, and lists standing ocean endorsement and bottomfish release requirements.
Most recreational anglers fishing in the ocean need an Ocean Endorsement.
These rockfish are prohibited at all times and in all waters.
A functional descending device must be onboard, regardless of depth.
Use the descending device to release any rockfish outside of 30 fathoms.
Mussels are open coastwide.
Razor clams are open from the Washington border to Cape Blanco and closed from Cape Blanco to the California border.
This is a south-coast closure; do not harvest razor clams from Cape Blanco to the California border.
Bay clams are open coastwide.
Crabs are open coastwide.
ODFW directs harvesters to call ODA's shellfish safety hotline or check the ODA shellfish closures page before clamming or crabbing.
ODA tests for shellfish toxins at least twice per month when tides and weather allow; closed areas require two clean tests before reopening.