Fish processor Ronald Black works through a haul of salmon from the Pacific Sea fishing boat on the dock of Pier 45 at Fisherman's Wharf in San Francisco, Calif., June 21, 2019.

The Pacific Fishery Management Council said the recommendations aim to balance the needs of the fishing industry with conservation efforts to protect salmon stocks. The California Department of ...

The unanimous vote by the Pacific Fishery Management Council, the authority responsible for setting Pacific salmon seasons, is a blow to the state fishing industry that supports tens of thousands ...

Bob Maharry sits inside his fishing boat in San Francisco, on March 20, 2023. A federal regulatory group has voted to officially close king salmon fishing season along much of the West Coast.

LOS ANGELES — California’s salmon population has declined so severely over the last several years that regulators canceled the fishing season in 2023 and again in 2024. This year, state ...

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 ...

Much of the salmon caught off Oregon originate in California's Klamath and Sacramento rivers. After hatching in freshwater, they spend three years on average maturing in the Pacific, where many ...

The closure will affect tens of thousands of jobs in the state's fishing industry, which was already devastated by last year's cancellation, according to the Golden State Salmon Association. It ...