OR/CA Border to Horse Mountain (KMZ)

June 6 – August 9

• Open seven days per week
• Minimum size limit: 20 inches total length
• Klamath Control Zone* (KCZ) closed in August
• Additional closures around mouth of Klamath, Smith & Eel rivers

Horse Mountain to Point Arena (Shelter Cove and Fort Bragg)

May 1 – November 8

• Open seven days per week
• Minimum size limit: 20 inches total length

Point Arena to Pigeon Point (San Francisco)

May 1 – November 8

• Open seven days per week
• Minimum size limit: 20 inches total length

Pigeon Point to U.S./Mexico Border (Monterey and South)

May 1 – October 4

• Open seven days per week
• Minimum size limit: 24 inches total length

General Sport Regulations

• Daily bag limit: 2 salmon of any species except Coho.
• Possession limit: No more than two daily bag limits may be possessed when on land. On a vessel in ocean waters, no person shall possess or bring ashore more than one daily bag limit.
• 2020 Sport Ocean Salmon Season Flyer (PDF)

*Klamath Control Zone: The ocean area at the Klamath River mouth bounded on the north by 41°38’48” N. lat. (approximately 6 nautical miles north of the Klamath River mouth); on the west, by 124°23’00” W. long. (approximately 12 nautical miles off shore); and on the south, by 41°26’48” N. lat. (approximately 6 nautical miles south of the Klamath River mouth).

2020 Oregon Recreational Ocean Salmon Regulations

Humbug Mountain to OR/CA Border

(OR KMZ – Brookings Area)

June 20 – August 7

• Open seven days per week
• Minimum size limit: 24 inches total length

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