Minus tide series expected on Oregon coast

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By Associated Press

ASTORIA, Ore. (AP) - One of the year's last significant minus tide series will take place on the Oregon Coast this holiday weekend during early mornings, meaning good opportunities for clamming, tide-pooling and fishing off rock croppings for nearshore rockfish.

However all salmon fishing off the Oregon Coast remains closed and recreational mussel harvesting is closed from south Clatsop County to the Columbia River because of high levels of paralytic shellfish poisoning.

The closure includes mussels on the beaches, rocks, jetties and at the entrance to bays. Coastal scallops are not affected when only the adductor muscle is eaten.
           
(Copyright 2008 by The Associated Press.  All Rights Reserved.)

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