Los Angeles Times

Coastal salmon fishing banned for a second year amid steep population declines

With salmon populations struggling, fishery officials have decided to ban fishing along the California coast for a second straight year. The Pacific Fishery Management Council, a multi-state, ...
Los Angeles Times

The salmon industry faces extinction — not because of drought, but politics and government policies

Snapshots from an environmental and economic disaster: Kenneth Brown, the owner of Bodega Tackle in Petaluma, reckons he has lost almost $450,000 in the last year. “I haven’t taken a paycheck in seven ...
Newsweek

California Salmon Fishing May Be Shut Down

California officials are debating whether to cancel the salmon fishing season for the third year in a row amid a concerningly low Chinook salmon population in the Sacramento Valley. In 2023 and 2024, ...
E&E

NOAA finalizes California salmon fishery closure for third year

NOAA Fisheries will close or constrain fishing for salmon off the southern Oregon and California coasts for the 2025-26 fishing season, citing “anticipated extremely low returns of California Chinook ...
Yahoo

Recreational salmon fishing resumes in California this weekend for limited time

William "Captain Smitty" Smith stands for a portrait at Pillar Point Harbor in Half Moon Bay in 2024. (Loren Elliott / For The Times) After a two-year shutdown, fishing boats will fan out along the ...