OAR 635-023-0140: Youngs Bay Control Zone

(1) The current annual Oregon Sport Fishing Regulations provide requirements for the Columbia River Zone. However, additional regulations may be adopted in this rule division from time to time, and, to the extent of any inconsistency, they supersede the current annual Oregon Sport Fishing Regulations . (2) The Youngs Bay Control Zone is closed to recreational angling from August 1 through September 15. (a) The Youngs Bay Control Zone is defined as those waters southerly of a line originating on the Oregon shore at the east end of the seawall at the Warrenton Fiber log yard (approximately river mile 10.1) northeasterly through green navigation buoys 29, 31, 33, and 35A to the center of the Astoria-Megler Bridge abutment adjacent to, and north of the ship channel, and continuing southerly in line with the center of the Megler Bridge span to the Oregon shore. (b) The Youngs Bay Control Zone includes all waters from the line defined in section (2)(a) above south to the Highway 101 Bridge.