News for this week: Salmon season opens on April 6 with a 24" minimum size and two fish limit. It closes again on the 30th and will likely reopen on May 1st with slightly different rules and possibly some other closure dates. They may close one day a week or close the season for a couple of weeks. For the record, if they close Thursdays I will be taking a different day off this summer.
In bivalve news, the State Department of Public Health tested the gaper clams (horsenecks) from the clam islands and found no evidence of PSP. They have found PSP in some of the critters further in the bay, and Washington and littleneck clams accumulate it quicker than the gapers (slower than mussels, though), so the gapers are officially the only ones OK to eat.
On the crab front, the Dungeness catching is slow for most, although a kayaker picked up 9 near the pier on Wednesday and another fisherman picked up 9 from three pots after a two day soak in front of Dillon Beach.