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. In 2023 and 2024, ...

SAN JOSE, Calif. (AP) — The 2025 commercial salmon fishing season in California will be closed for an unprecedented third year running, and sportfishing will be restricted to only a few days due to ...

California must adopt new water diversion rules to restore Sacramento and Central Valley salmon runs, protect the Bay-Delta and save coastal fishing jobs. Randy Pench Sacramento Bee file Today, ...

SACRAMENTO (KCRA) — Salmon fishing officially closed on the American and Sacramento rivers in 2023 due to low abundance estimates, but officials on Tuesday said that hasn’t stopped some from illegally ...

The Trump administration yesterday released a draconian plan to divert more Delta water that will go into effect today, posing an extreme threat to already imperiled salmon, steelhead and other fish ...

The low count of returning adult salmon, made by the federally operated Coleman National Fish Hatchery, is preliminary, with several weeks left in the natural spawning period for the Sacramento Valley ...

Farmers can estimate the size of a harvest months in advance by counting the blossoms on their trees. Similarly, salmon fishers can cast an eye into the future by counting spawning fish in a river.

The question for the past year on most northern California anglers’ lips has been: Will there be a salmon season in 2025? That question has changed to: Why bother having a salmon season? That question ...

Delta marsh loss converts juvenile salmon refuge into a seasonally lethal zone Dams, levees and species introductions fragment habitat and amplify predation Public ignorance and fractured politics ...

Authorities seized over 150 pounds of packaged salmon roe from poachers amidst the river’s closure. Sturgeon released, packaged salmon roe seized from illegal fishing operation along Sacramento River ...