The Pacific Fisheries Management Council is a system to manage ocean fish stocks for the entire west coast. In conjunction ...

With "largely encouraging" Chinook and coho forecasts, the West Coast ocean salmon fishing council has adopted options for 2026 seasons off Washington, Oregon and the rest of the coast, and here's ...

In better times, droves of young winter-run Chinook salmon would travel 300 miles downstream from the Sacramento River, beneath the Golden Gate Bridge and into the Pacific. They would return as adults ...

Half a dozen years ago we were in a major multi year drought. The effect on our salmon fisheries was so severe that we closed salmon fishing statewide for two years and this year we only had a limited ...

Last week, California’s ocean recreational salmon fishing season closed for 2025. The recreational season lasted six days — after two fully closed seasons. California’s commercial fishing fleet has ...

The remaining fall dates for recreational salmon in California have been closed, after 12,000 Chinook salmon were caught off the coast of the San Francisco Bay Area in a brief opening earlier this ...

MILLBRAE -- In contrast to the stormy protests of earlier years, federal regulators heard no objections Wednesday when they banned salmon fishing off California for the second straight year. The ...

2025 is the year for salmon success in California's Yuba River. A nonprofit organization dedicated to protecting and restoring the watershed has positive results to share this year. "Just in the last ...