Last Oregon Cab today?

Fished the salt today and brought home a nice cabby among other tasties.  Hopped on the interweb and saw Cabbies are closed effective Thursday the 21st in addition to no fishing outside 20 fathoms (120ft).   Does this mean I caught my last one today or can I still fish Thursday, but not after the 21st?  Either way I'll be fishing PC tomorrow as always anyone interested in joining me is welcome..


 
New changes to sport groundfish rules start July 21

July 19, 2011
NEWPORT, Ore. -- Fishery managers today announced two changes to the ocean groundfish sport fishery effective Thursday, July 21.
The fishery beyond the 20 fathom line (as defined in regulation) will be closed in order to reduce catch-and-release mortality of yelloweye rockfish. Anglers may occasionally catch, but cannot keep, yelloweye rockfish while fishing for other species. Yelloweye rockfish, along with canary rockfish, are considered overfished by NOAA Fisheries and a certain percentage of those caught and released must be reported as mortality.
According to Lynn Mattes, ODFW sport groundfish project leader, yelloweye rockfish generally live in deeper waters so bringing the fishery inside 20 fathoms will reduce impacts to the population while allowing anglers to continue to fish for other bottomfish such as black rockfish and lingcod. Additionally, yelloweye rockfish caught and released from shallower than 20 fathoms have a lower mortality rate.
“After consulting with the Sportfish Advisory Committee we made the decision to pull the fishery into 20 fathoms to help reduce impacts to yelloweye rockfish, while still offering fishing opportunities for other species,” Mattes said.
The Sportfish Advisory Committee advises ODFW on marine sport fisheries and its members include private anglers, charter boat operators and a port representative.
In addition, sport anglers fishing from boats may no longer retain cabezon beginning July 21 because fisheries managers estimate the harvest limit of 15.8 metric tons will have been met. Sport boat anglers may continue to harvest other legal species such as black rockfish, lingcod and greenling.
Waypoints for the 20-fathom line may be found at www.dfw.state.or.us/MRP/regulations/sport_fishing.
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Contact:
Lynn Mattes or Patrick Mirick (541) 867-0300
     

Damn, forgot all about that...C&R'd a 20 incher today. would have kept if i would recalled the closing..Doh!

Hard to believe they reached the quota already with the lower limit.

We have been killin them though... 

I think you're out of luck.  I read it to say the closure begins tomorrow (the 21st).

But it was sure fun while it lasted!  Some real piggies caught this year.

-Spot-

Damn, forgot all about that...C&R'd a 20 incher today. would have kept if i would recalled the closing..Doh!

Hard to believe they reached the quota already with the lower limit.

We have been killin them though...

I think that was the problem.
Evidently, we weren't the only ones and the ODFW fish checkers noticed.

I think you're out of luck.  I read it to say the closure begins tomorrow (the 21st).

But it was sure fun while it lasted!  Some real piggies caught this year.

-Spot-

Thats kinda the way I read it too .   and just when I figured out a dead nuts way to filet them..