Oregon Closes 65-mile Stretch of Coast to Commercial Dungeness Crabbing
SEAFOODNEWS.COM [Seafood News] by Susan Chambers - February 3, 2017
Oregon health and fishery managers took the rare step late Thursday of closing the commercial Dungeness crab fishery in a roughly 65-mile area after the season was already open, due to one crab with viscera that had an elevated level of domoic acid.
The state closed recreational crabbing in the area from the North Jetty at Coos Bay north to Heceta Head, north of Florence, on Wednesday...
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