License Required to Take Marine Shellfish for Those 14 Years or Older
Limits and/or open areas may change. Call ODFW for current information.
The following summarized regulations apply to the Pacific Ocean, coastal bays, and beaches. For complete information, Sport Fishing Regulations books may be obtained at ODFW offices and wherever licenses are sold.
OPEN SEASON: Entire year and at all hours. Exceptions are listed under “Harvest Methods and Restrictions” in the table below, and except when any state agency has issued a public health advisory. To learn about current health advisories, contact Oregon Dept. of Agriculture, 800-448-2474.
OPEN AREAS: All areas are open except Marine Gardens, Research Reserves, Habitat Refuges, and Shellfish Preserves. These areas have signs indicating their locations and are listed and mapped in the Sport Fishing Regulations book.
UNLAWFUL TO:
- Waste fish, shellfish or marine invertebrates.
- Use chemicals to take fish, shellfish or marine invertebrates.
- Assist in the harvest of another person’s catch except under a Disabled Clam Digger Permit or a Permanent Disabilities Permit.
- Sell any sport caught fish or shellfish, except the skeletal remains of nongame marine fish.
Species |
Daily limit |
Harvest method and restrictions |
Abalone |
1 abalone per day, 5 abalone per year, minimum size 8 inches |
SHELLFISH LICENSE REQUIRED
- Special permit required from ODFW.
- Permit lists additional regulations for abalone harvest.
- Permits can be obtained at ODFW in Brookings, Charleston and Newport.
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Razor clams |
First 15 taken |
SHELLFISH LICENSE REQUIRED
- May be taken by hand or hand-powered tools.
- Clatsop County beaches north of Tillamook Head closed to razor clams July 15 -September 30.
- Razor clams may be taken by hand, shovel, or cylindrical gun or tube. The opening of the gun/tube must be either circular or elliptical with the circular gun/tube opening having a minimum outside diameter of 4 inches and the elliptical gun/tube opening having a minimum outside diameter dimension of 4 inches long and 3 inches wide.
- Unlawful to remove clams from the shell before leaving the harvest area.
- Each digger must have their own container, dig own clam, and may not possess more than one limit of clams while in the harvest area except under a Disabled Clam Digging Permit.
- Unbroken butter, cockle, or littleneck clams may be returned only in immediate harvest area. All other clams must be retained regardless of size or condition.
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Bay clams
Butter, Littleneck, Cockle, Geoduck and Gaper. |
20 clams, of which only 12 in aggregate may be gaper clams or geoduck clams. |
Softshell and others (e.g. purple varnish) |
First 36 taken. |
| Red rock crab |
24 crabs, any size or sex |
SHELLFISH LICENSE REQUIRED
- Bays, estuaries, beaches, tide pools, piers and jetties open all year.
- Ocean closed for Dungeness crab October 16 – November 30.
- May be taken using crab rings, pots, or baited lines (Limited to 3 rings, pots or lines per person); or by hand, dip net, or rake.
- Size is measured in a straight line across the back (caliper measurement) immediately in front of, but not including the points.
- Undersize and female Dungeness crabs and unwanted crabs must be immediately released unharmed.
- No more than 2 daily catch limits of Dungeness crabs (24) or red rock crabs (48) may be kept in a trap or live box. Holding devices prohibited in Pacific Ocean.
- Crabs may not be mutilated so that sex, size or species cannot be determined prior to landing. Mutilated crabs may not be transported across state waters.
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Dungeness crab |
12 male crabs, minimum size
5 ¾ inches |
| Shrimp, prawns |
20 pounds in the shell |
SHELLFISH LICENSE REQUIRED
- May be taken using traps, pots, or rings.
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| Oysters |
no take allowed |
- Harvest of native oysters prohibited.
- All cultured oysters are private property and may not be taken without the owner’s permission
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Mussels |
72 |
SHELLFISH LICENSE REQUIRED
- May be taken by hand or hand-powered tools.
- A special permit is required from ODFW to harvest mud and ghost shrimp by mechanical methods.
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Scallops |
24 |
Piddocks |
36 |
| Mud and ghost shrimp (bait) |
No limit |
| Octopus |
1 per day |
SHELLFISH LICENSE NOT REQUIRED
- May be taken by angling, dipnet, pot and hand.
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Squid |
No limit |
SHELLFISH LICENSE NOT REQUIRED
- May be taken by angling (squid jig and herring jig allowed), dipnet, cast net, hand, and hand powered tools.
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Sand crabs, Mole crabs, Kelp worms and Sand worms |
No limit |
SHELLFISH LICENSE NOT REQUIRED
- May be taken by hand or hand powered tools.
- Unwanted marine invertebrates must be released alive.
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All other marine invertebrates (urchins, chitons, snails, shore crabs, anemones, sea stars, and similar animals) |
10 in aggregate |
Contact ODFW for more information
NEWPORT (541) 867-4741
Astoria (503) 325-2462
Charleston (541) 888-5515
Brookings (541) 412-7364
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