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Kathryn Gill

Kathryn Gill is originally from Maine, but she has spent the last three years working as a deckhand out of Newport, Oregon fishing for Dungeness crab, Chinook salmon, and albacore tuna. She also participates in the Bristol Bay sockeye salmon fishery. 

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A salmon troller, the Tempest, trolls for salmon off the coast near Charleston, Ore. Susan Chambers photo.

Chinook salmon season likely to remain closed In Oregon and California

Dungeness crabs in a live hold. Oregon DFW photo.

Oregon Dungeness crab fishermen criticize repeated delay of season opener

Built between 1903 and 1962, PacifiCorp’s Klamath Hydroelectric Project consists of seven dams the project calls for the four lower dams (Iron Gate, Copco No. 1, Copco No. 2, and J.C. Boyle), which have a generation capacity of 163 megawatts, to be decommissioned. Klamath River Renewal Corporation photos.

Klamath Dam Removal Could Offer Promise for Oregon Commercial Salmon Fishery

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