LOS ANGELES — Federal fishery managers voted Wednesday to cancel all commercial and recreational salmon fishing off the coast of Californiathat supports tens of thousands of jobs and is still reeling from last year's shutdown. Salmon fishing was also closed in California during the 2008 and 2009 seasons.
A February report by the fishery council found that in 2023 just over 6,100 fall-run Chinook, often known as king salmon, returned to the upper Sacramento River to spawn. The average between 1996 and 2005 was more than 175,000 fish.For the time being the ban affects commercial and recreational ocean fishing. However the council has recommended that the California Fish and Game Commission consider barring river fishing as well. The state agency is expected to vote in the coming weeks.
California’s spring-run Chinook are listed as threatened under the Endangered Species Act, while winter-run Chinook are endangered along with the Central California Coast coho salmon, which has been off-limits to California commercial fishers since the 1990s.
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