Babe Ruth seeking coach for season

The Olympic Junior Babe Ruth is looking to fill a head coach vacancy for one of the Sequim Junior Babe Ruth teams for the 2016 season. The age range is for 13- to 15-year-old boys. For more details, call Bill Bates at 460-9203.

Local paddlers to hear about Alaska race

The Olympic Peninsula Paddlers club meets at 7 p.m. Wednesday, Feb. 10, at the Vern Burton Community Center, 308 E. Fourth St., Port Angeles. In this month’s program, Steve Hiegel of Port Townsend Paddlesports shares his kayaking experience of the R2AK 2015 Race to Alaska with his presentation, “How I Love to Surf My Kayak, but 5 Miles Offshore?”

The public is invited to attend.

See OlympicPeninsulaPaddlers.com.

State curbs chinook daily catch limit

The daily catch limit for chinook salmon in Marine Area 6 (East Juan de Fuca Strait) will be reduced to one fish, with a two-salmon limit.

All wild chinook salmon must be released.

The restriction is effective Feb. 5-April 10.

Before the salmon fishing season started, the Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife and tribal co-managers agreed to a limited number (2,586) of chinook encounters — retaining or releasing fish — anglers are allowed in Marine Area 6. Preliminary estimates indicate that anglers have reached 71 percent of those encounters. The fishery is being modified to control impacts on stocks of concern.

State officials will continue to monitor and evaluate the fishery in order to help maximize fishing opportunity is available for Marine Area 6. Anglers are reminded that they must continue to release all wild chinook.

For more information, call Ryan Lothrop at 360-902-2808.