OPB

Fall-run ocean Chinook fishing season likely to be canceled for much of Oregon

Oregon’s spring ocean salmon season was supposed to open in mid-March, but the National Marine Fisheries Service closed both the recreational and commercial seasons through mid-May in much of the ...
Yahoo! Sports

Commercial, recreational ocean salmon fishing canceled. What does this mean for anglers?

Commercial and recreational fishing for Chinook salmon will be banned this year in marine waters off California, and most of Oregon due to historically low fall-run Chinook salmon returns to the ...
OPB

Potential closure of fall-run ocean Chinook season off Oregon coast affects tribes, fishermen

Adult fall Chinook salmon in the Priest Rapids Hatchery. The fall-run ocean Chinook fishing season could be closed for much of Oregon through Sept. 1. The National Marine Fisheries Service already ...
KGW8

Imperiled Chinook salmon runs close ocean fishing off California, much of Oregon

Dangerously low levels of fall run Chinook salmon in two California rivers have forced wildlife officials to shut down fishing off much of the West Coast. The closure currently runs through May 15 and ...
kcra.com

Continued drought brings another year of high mortality rates for salmon returning to the ocean

BEEN NEEDED. WELL CHINOOK SALMON ARE AN IMPORTANT PART OF NORTHERN CALIFORNIA’S ECOSYSTEM, BUT THESE FISH HAVE BNEE HEAVILY IMPACTED BY DROUGHT OVER THE PAST FEW YEARS METEOROLOGIST HEATHER WALTMAN ...
Yahoo

With salmon at risk of extinction, California begins urgent rescue effort

Typically, now is the time when creeks along the Sacramento River are filled with young spring-run Chinook salmon preparing to make their journey downstream to the Pacific Ocean, where they will ...
Climate Compass on MSN

After a century away, Chinook salmon make a historic return to California

They swam for more than 350 miles against the current. Past dams that once stopped them. Through waters that hadn't seen ...

Surge of salmon-craving anglers expected across CA coast over weekend

Officials expect a wave of anglers to visit the California coastline over the weekend as the recreational ocean salmon season ...
Center for Biological Diversity

Oregon, Northern California Coastal Chinook Salmon Move Closer to Endangered Species Protection

PORTLAND, Ore.— In response to a petition by the Native Fish Society, Center for Biological Diversity and Umpqua Watersheds, the National Marine Fisheries Service determined today that the Oregon ...
SFGate

Salmon seen in California's North Yuba River for first time in almost a century

Several months after the start of a pilot program aiming to restore salmon runs in California’s Sierra County, Chinook salmon can be found in the North Yuba River “for the first time in close to a ...
Los Angeles Times

California’s endangered salmon population plummets amid new threat

They’ve been pushed to the brink of extinction by dams, drought, extreme heat and even the flare of wildfires, but now California’s endangered winter-run Chinook salmon appear to be facing an entirely ...
Los Angeles Times

Wildlife officials truck Chinook salmon to cooler waters in emergency move to help them spawn

In a stopgap measure to help struggling spring- and winter-run Chinook salmon spawn in the face of rising water temperatures and lower water levels due to climate change, state and federal wildlife ...