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Oregon Seafood
Oregon is an important source of American seafood. Oregon's seafood industry plays a vital role in the state's economy. Oregon seafood harvests exceeded 300 million pounds in 2006, with a total value of almost 106 million dollars.
Oregon seafood is landed in ports including Astoria, Warrenton, Garibaldi, Pacific City, Deboe Bay, Newport, Florence, Winchester Bay, Charleston, Bandon, Port Orford, Gold Beach and Brookings.
Oregon has been recognized for it’s pink shrimp. The Oregon trawl fishery for pink shrimp is a sustainable and well-managed fishery. The fishery is the first shrimp fishery worldwide to be certified under the Marine Stewardship Council (MSC) program. The MSC label helps consumers reward producers by choosing seafood that originates from certified sustainable fisheries.
Oregon also had a Dungeness crab fishery. The state allows a limited entry fishery with a relatively stable number of boats in the fishery. A pot limitation program controls fishing pressure on the resource.
Oregon has commercial salmon fisheries for chinook, steelhead and other salmon. Along the coast, commercial fishermen troll for ocean chinook salmon. Multiple gillnet fisheries exists on the Columbia River. Along the Columbia River, native American tribes are entitled to catch limited numbers of fall chinook and steelhead under treaties with the U.S. government specifying that the tribes reserved the right to fish "at all usual and accustomed fishing sites in common with citizens of the United States." The fall chinook run typically makes up the largest portion of the Columbia River salmon catch. In addition, fishermen participate in a special fishery for aquaculture-raised salmon in Youngs Bay. Gillnetters in this fishery may also catch hatchery runs if there is a surplus.
Along the Oregon coast, commercial fishermen harvest albacore tuna, sardines, Pacific whiting, and several other species of groundfish.
Pacific Whiting is an important coastal fishery. Most Oregon whiting are landed by mid-water trawl vessels. Pacific whiting are brought to port or processed at-sea. Large factory trawlers harvest Pacific whiting and and process the fish on-board. Other trawlers may specialize in catching only and opt to transfer their whiting to motherships which process the fish on fishing grounds.
Oregon commercial fishing ventures harvest other groundfish including lingcod, canary rockfish, Pacific ocean perch, darkblotched rockfish, yelloweye rockfish, widow rockfish, Dover sole, sablefish, and shortspine thornyhead.
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