California salmon fishing banned for second year in row

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In a devastating blow to California’s fishing industry, federal fishery managers unanimously voted on Wednesday to cancel all commercial and recreational salmon fishing off the coast of California for the second year in a row.

The decision is designed to protect California’s dwindling salmon populations after drought and water diversions left river flows too warm and sluggish for the state’s iconic Chinook salmon to thrive.

Salmon abundance forecasts for the year “are just too low,” Marci Yaremko, the California Department of Fish and Wildlife’s appointee to the Pacific Fishery Management Council, said last week. “While the rainfall and the snowpacks have improved, the stocks and their habitats just need another year to recover.”

State and federal agencies are now expected to implement the closures for ocean fishing. Had the season not been in question again this year, recreational boats would likely already be fishing off the coast of California, while the commercial season typically runs from May through October.

https://washingtonstatestandard.com/2024/04/12/california-salmon-fishing-banned-for-second-year-in-row/

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1. It was long about 15 years ago, Joyce and I on vacation in San Francisco. Fisherman's Wharf ---

I guess there was an abundance of salmon that summer. Fish were being sold off the dock at about $5.00 per fish. I recall a couple of people on bicycles, with fish sticking out of backpacks, peddling off the wharf.

In other words, the commercial fishermen were on the balls of their asses. Times were tough.

I overhear an elderly woman go up to a fisherman, "Do you have a senior citizen discount?