100-day chinook season likely — One year after a crash in Klamath River salmon returns sparked a full-scale closure, sport anglers off the Southern Oregon coast are on track for a 100-day chinook season from mid-May through late August. The Pacific Fishery Management Council adopted the framework for ocean-salmon seasons at its meeting Tuesday in Portland, where it also determined commercial troll fishing for chinook will be open intermittently along the entire Oregon Coast from May through the summer. Like sport anglers, the commercial fleet off Brookings, Gold Beach and Port Orford saw no chinook fishing last spring and summer. Meanwhile, sport salmon fishing in the ocean off the Columbia River will open June 23 and is expected to run through Labor Day. The council’s recommendations will be forwarded to the National Marine Fisheries Service for approval.

Man enters plea in Portland hate crime — The suspect in a Portland hate crime against a Muslim couple has pleaded no contest to a pair of charges stemming from the 2017 incident, saying that participation in social media stoked his anger leading up to the crime. Portland police arrested Fredrick Sorrell Harmes, 49, in 2017 after he allegedly followed a Muslim couple in his car, shouting threats and vulgar invective directed at the woman’s religious garments, and telling them to leave the country. The charges were filed under Oregon’s bias crime statue, the state’s equivalent of a hate crime law, said B.J. Park, the Multnomah deputy district attorney who prosecuted the case. Both were for misdemeanor intimidation, and together carry a maximum sentence of just under two years.