Oregon fishermen will begin testing ropeless crabbing technology next spring in an effort to save whales from often-fatal entanglements. The state since 2021 has taken steps to reduce whale entanglements, including requiring additional late season crabbing tags and limiting how many crabbing pots fishermen can use and how deep they can place them, Oregon Department […]
The popular Buoy 10 salmon fishery at the mouth of the Columbia River opened to Coho and Chinook fishing Aug. 1, with another strong return of nearly one million fall Chinook predicted.
SALEM (AP) — Oregon lawmakers don’t want the state to get stuck with the bill if a wave-energy company installs equipment off shore and then goes belly up. The Senate voted unanimously Monday to require that companies experimenting with wave energy in Oregon’s territorial waters show they have enough money to recover their equipment when they’re done with it. They’d be required to remove the equipment within two years of decommissioning it. The bill now goes to the House.
REEDSPORT (AP) — A company planning to channel the power of the ocean off the Oregon coast into the electrical grid inland says it faces a new regulatory hurdle and needs more money for what has been billed as the nation’s first commercial wave energy operation.
In a letter sent to the Port of Hood River Monday, Naito Development informed the Port commission it was at an impasse with Friends of the Hood River Waterfront and intended to submit a revised plan to put a recreational cable park into the Nichols boat basin.
