In honor of the opening of Newport’s commercial crab fishing season, we have uploaded our latest documentary to YouTube. This Ebb and Flow series film chronicles the early history of Newport’s efforts to promote the crab fishing industry through the city’s main annual attraction, the Crab Festival, which ran in the ‘30s to the ‘50s. Crab fishing is now part of Newport’s identity, and the film discusses the evolution of the industry and highlights our modern fleet.

This film was generously funded by Discover Newport and produced by Visually Thinking Northwest for the Lincoln County Historical Society.

We premiered this video at the PMHC in November, 2025, for World Fisheries Day and had a good turnout (92 in attendance). Crab cakes were donated by our amazing neighbor, Local Ocean, and we had opening and closing remarks by local fisherman and LCHS/Oregon Crab Commission board member, Bob Eder.