A proposal to make hunting and fishing illegal in Oregon has received enough signatures to advance to the Nov. ballot

X ^ | 5/26/2026 | KATU News

[NohSpinZone]

A proposal to make hunting and fishing illegal in Oregon has received enough signatures to advance to the Nov. ballot. The Sec. of State needs to validate all the signatures first. A Portland City Council member wants to rename Cesar Chavez Blvd. Details: http://katu.com

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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Local News; Outdoors; Society
KEYWORDS: ban; fishing; freaks; freaksversusnormals; hunting; oregon; wellthatsfantastic

[Dave911]

That’s going to take a lot of ammo.

[fwdude]

Have they banned home gardening yet?

[Steven Scharf]

This is a master class in reverse politics. Having this on the ballot will drive low propsenity voting conservatives to the polls to vote and they will vote for the Republicans at the same time.

Worked in Maine with two bear baiting referrendums the dumb liberals put on the ballot at two elections.

It has been the plan with the Protect Girls’ Sports effort, which was offically tossed off the ballot today, pending further appeals. Drive Republican turnout.

[P-Marlowe]

We in Idaho aren’t too keen on uniting with any part of Oregon. Eastern Oregon, Eastern Washington and Northeastern California should form their own state.

[PIF]

many lawsuits by the Indian tribes

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The Treaty Tribes are exempt as they are sovereign nations - so called. The are regulated by Federal law on reservation, not state law.

[Dead Corpse]

Next up.... Banning the deadly chemical dihydrogen monoxide. Almost 900 children EVERY YEAR in the US alone die from dihydrogen monoxide...

[No name given]

Exactly!

[PIF]

They lose in court should the tribes be held to State law. On Reservation hunting, fishing etc is regulated the tribe and Federal law.

Tribal Rights
Oregon Tribes are not exempted - treaty-protected hunting and fishing rights would be jeopardized.

Hunting
All licensed hunting would be classified as animal abuse under Oregon law.

Fishing
Sport and commercial fishing would be criminalized statewide.

Trapping
Legal trapping - including pest and wildlife management - would become illegal.

Farming & Ranching
Raising animals for food, dairy, eggs, and fiber would constitute animal abuse.

Scientific Research
Animal use in education, research, and wildlife management programs would be banned.

[Sacajaweau]

I agree...The government does not own mother nature.

[3RIVRS]

The next step in banning and confiscating “sporting arms.” From an environmental standpoint they have no clue what this would unleash.

[NohSpinZone]

So Oregon means to violate the entire Bill of Rights, I see.

[VTenigma]

That should do wonders for wildlife management.

[Labyrinthos]

Here is a list off the proposed bans:

Hunting, fishing, and trapping of animals;

Slaughter of any animal for food;

Actions currently protected as good animal husbandry in existing state law (e.g., dehorning cattle, docking livestock, and castration or neutering of livestock);

Commercial poultry operations;

Any farming practice that causes physical injury, stress, or fails minimum care standards established by the initiative;

Certain wildlife management practices (e.g., culling programs, invasive species control, predator management);
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Setting mousetraps, pest extermination, or rodent control if it causes physical injury or death to a protected animal.

The only exceptions allowed under the initiative for harming or killing a protected animal are self-defense against an immediate threat to yourself, other humans, or other animals, and good veterinary practices defined in state law. Under the initiative, protected animals would include any nonhuman mammal, bird, reptile, amphibian, or fish.”

https://news.ballotpedia.org/2026/05/26/campaign-behind-initiative-to-criminalize-hunting-fishing-and-any-intentional-injury-to-animals-in-oregon-submits-required-number-of-signatures/

[Uncle Miltie]

It also makes rat killing by exterminators illegal.

So it will fail.

[Lazamataz]

Here is a list off the proposed bans:

• Hunting, fishing, and trapping of animals;
• Slaughter of any animal for food;
• Actions currently protected as good animal husbandry in existing state law (e.g., dehorning cattle, docking livestock, and castration or neutering of livestock);
• Commercial poultry operations;
• Any farming practice that causes physical injury, stress, or fails minimum care standards established by the initiative;
• Certain wildlife management practices (e.g., culling programs, invasive species control, predator management);
• Setting mousetraps, pest extermination, or rodent control if it causes physical injury or death to a protected animal.

NOT GOOD ENOUGH

I need to see:

• Ban on the harvesting of any crops for food.
• Any human construction that in any way inconveniences any animal.
• The banning of all pets
• Meat consumption banned in any predatory animal
• Cars banned, they might run over an insect
• Humans banned. All of them.

[DennisR]

Can you document where it says hunting and fishing will be banned? Because I read through the proposed initiative and could find nothing like that.

https://sos.oregon.gov/admin/Documents/irr/2026/028text.pdf

[DennisR]

I might have missed it, but I am not sure your list is accurate:

https://sos.oregon.gov/admin/Documents/irr/2026/028text.pdf

[Cold Heart]

Right up on top, removes exemptions to 167. The exemptions

[DIRTYSECRET]

I know. Just gotta find folks that would let me shoot on their property.

[shaggy eel]

So if Oregon bans fishing and hunting, what's there to do up there besides looting and fentanyl zombie dodging?

,,, transfer hunting to urban Seattle.