The announcement by the Pacific Fishery Management Council also announced that recreational ocean salmon fishing will be “extremely limited,” but allowed for the first time since 2022. The PFMC announcement said the decision was because of the extremely low returns of fall,

Facing the continued collapse of Chinook salmon, officials today shut down California’s commercial salmon fishing season for an unprecedented third year in a row.

The U.S. state of California’s commercial salmon fishery will remain closed for a third year in a row due mostly to low abundance fall Chinook runs in both the Klamath River and Sacramento River.