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.

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 ...

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 ...

A February report by the Pacific Fishery Management Council found that only 6,160 fall-run Chinook wild salmon, also known as king salmon, returned to the upper Sacramento River in 2023 to spawn ...

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 ...

Between 2000 and 2005, fishermen, on average, caught more than 800,000 Chinook salmon a year in California and Oregon fisheries during the May-to-October fishing season, according to the council.