Register-Guard: Oregon fishermen tell stories of strange events on the Pacific Ocean that have made them shudder over the past half dozen years.
The Whiskey Creek Shellfish Hatchery on the states north coast watched oyster larvae die en masse for three years in a row in the mid-2000s -- depriving oyster farms along the entire West Coast of seed oysters.
Florence crabber Al Pazar saw baby octopuses, an inch or two long, climb up his crab lines to escape the sea waters in the 2005 season. When he pulled up...