ILWACO — Ocean salmon fishing off southern Washington and northern Oregon closed effective today.
The closure applies between Cape Falcon, in Oregon near Manzanita, and Leadbetter Point at the northern tip of Long Beach Peninsula.
The closure does not apply inside the Columbia River, including the popular Buoy 10 fishery.
Ocean anglers were projected to have taken their quota of 18,900 coho by Saturday night.
Buoy 10 — State officials will allow the retention of any chinook at Buoy 10 on Sept. 4 and 5.
Anglers on Sundays and Mondays have been limited to hatchery chinook only those two days a week, however the chinook catch has been lower than anticipated.
Angling at Buoy 10 is scheduled to close for chinook retention on Sept. 6, but will remain open for coho. However, coho catches so far this summer in the Columbia River estuary have been meager.
