Lower Willamette Sturgeon Open 6/20 and 6/27

Anyone planning to make a go of it?

https://www.dfw.state.or.us/news/2020/06_June/061620.asp

IDK, that will be such a mad house! Not sure I want to be out there on a kayak those days.

If you do a little research about carcinogens and lower Willamette valley benthic contaminants you would not be excited by this opportunity.

Is Oregon selling out of state licenses yet? Would love to go down on the 27th.

If you do a little research about carcinogens and lower Willamette valley benthic contaminants you would not be excited by this opportunity.

I actually spent a fair amount of time yesterday looking for good information on this. Certainly it's clear that the Willamette is contaminated and resident fish should not be eaten, but there's very little I've been able to find regarding lower Willamette sturgeon populations in regards to resident fish or fish migrating in and out of the river, perhaps my google fu isn't so strong, but I may just not have the biological terminology keywords to use to find this stuff. If you've got any good info on lower willamette or columbia sturgeon and toxicology I would love to see it.

According to this lower Willamette fish consumption report from 2018, they're working on a separate technical report specific to sturgeon:

https://www.oregon.gov/oha/PH/HEALTHYENVIRONMENTS/RECREATION/FISHCONSUMPTION/Documents/LowerWillametteFishAdvisoryTechnicalReport.pdf

If it's anything similar to the health advisories for sturgeon in San Francisco Bay, limit it to no more than one meal a week and never give it to children or women of childbearing age.

Well, I don't have any actual proof of it, but those Sturgeon that live around the docks at Sauvie Island don't leave. If everyone took a small clip out of a fun every time a fish was caught they would all be finless.

 I hope everyone goes sturgeon fishing. Then I will have the shad upstream (and safe to eat) all to myself. 

I wonder how many fish will die because people are yanking them out of the water and trying to stretch that one "almost keeper" into a keeper.   Or just wishful thinking and taking them out to measure them at all when they are over/under sized.  Last time they did this, I saw some obviously illegal fish kept at the Gilbert River boat launch.