Coastal salmon fishing banned for a second year amid steep population declines Commercial fishermen George Jue, left, and Dan St. Clair work at Pillar Point Harbor in Half Moon Bay.

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.

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 estimates show the ...

Federal fishery managers voted on April 10, 2024, to cancel all commercial and recreational salmon fishing off the coast of California for the second year in a row, and only the fourth time in ...

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 ...

This year, state estimates show the number of Chinook salmon is still so low that fishing could again be prohibited — or if not, sharply limited — to help fish stocks recover.

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. Why It Matters ...