After a two-year shutdown, fishing boats will fan out along the California coast angling for Chinook salmon this weekend as recreational fishing resumes under strict limits. Coastal salmon fishing ...

A n endangered species has returned to its Northern California river habitat for the first time in almost a century, wildlife ...

For the first time in nearly a century, adult winter-run Chinook salmon have been spotted swimming in the McCloud River, a ...

California salmon fishing season is in jeopardy again William Smith has long fished the California coast for salmon, taking avid anglers out on his boat in hopes they'll get to wrestle with and ...

Facing the continued collapse of Chinook salmon, officials this week shut down California’s commercial salmon fishing season for an unprecedented third year in a row. Under the decision by an ...

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 ...

Winter-run Chinook salmon, once considered to be most at risk of extinction by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, returned to its habitat in Northern California. Wildlife officials ...

(Photo by Carl Costas/California Department of Water Resources) All California commercial salmon fishing will be shut down until 2026 — the third year in a row — due to low salmon populations.

Low Salmon Counts Could Lead to Another Canceled Fishing Season in California Salmon fishing was banned in California in 2023 and 2024 By Sage Marshall Mar 11, 2025 Photo by CDFW ...

If that number of fish isn’t reached during the opening weekend, salmon fishing will be allowed until the limit is reached in subsequent stretches, which may include July 5-6, July 31-Aug. 3 ...