Posted by: eyeFISH
NEW Willapa Bay Control Zone - 04/12/18 08:30 PM
.... comin'at'cha for 2018.
Willapa Bay will open for salmon on July 1 under concurrent regs with the ocean (MA-2)... 2 fish bag, one chinook, release wild coho.
On Aug 1, WDFW plans to implement a new control zone at the mouth of WB.... the area between the blue line (current rec boundary) and the black line (new demarcation between Leadbetter and Marker 11) shall be CLOSED to rec fishing to protect depressed non-local and/or ESA-listed stocks which have been found to be impacted in appreciable numbers within this zone. The control zone shall be re-opened in-season when it is determined that these non-local stocks have moved thru and the overwhelming majority of salmon encounters in this zone are local WB-origin fish. It is anticipated this would occur sometime after Labor Day, give or take a few days.
Willapa Bay will open for salmon on July 1 under concurrent regs with the ocean (MA-2)... 2 fish bag, one chinook, release wild coho.
On Aug 1, WDFW plans to implement a new control zone at the mouth of WB.... the area between the blue line (current rec boundary) and the black line (new demarcation between Leadbetter and Marker 11) shall be CLOSED to rec fishing to protect depressed non-local and/or ESA-listed stocks which have been found to be impacted in appreciable numbers within this zone. The control zone shall be re-opened in-season when it is determined that these non-local stocks have moved thru and the overwhelming majority of salmon encounters in this zone are local WB-origin fish. It is anticipated this would occur sometime after Labor Day, give or take a few days.