The Pacific Fishery Management Council (PMFC) is weighing a decision at one of their conferences to determine the fate of California's salmon fishing season. While they're still in the early stages of ...

California’s last wild salmon are one drought, and one more round of mismanagement, from vanishing from the state’s rivers, says Sacramento Bee opinion writer.

In a significant shift of California’s salmon strategy, the California Department of Fish and Wildlife (CDFW) has begun releasing juvenile fall-run Chinook salmon from CDFW-operated hatcheries into ...

The California Department of Fish and Wildlife (CDFW) plans to inject 350,000 Chinook salmon eggs into the North Yuba River ...

Millions of Chinook salmon were released into the Sacramento River to bolster dwindling populations. Recreational salmon fishing will be allowed for two days in June with a limit of 7,000 fish. The ...

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 ...

SACRAMENTO – The California Fish and Game Commission voted this week to close salmon fishing in Central Valley rivers and in the Klamath River Basin, making it the second straight year. The California ...

Limited Chinook salmon fishing on sections of the Mokelumne, Feather and American rivers is being reopened for the first time in two years, the California Department of Fish and Wildlife announced ...

CLEMENTS − A record high number of over 23,000 fall-run Chinook salmon have returned to the Mokelumne River, a tributary of the San Joaquin River, while the second lowest number of Sacramento River ...

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 ...

California will reopen limited Chinook salmon fishing on three Sacramento-area rivers. New regulations take effect in mid-July on the Mokelumne, Feather and American rivers. Salmon population recovery ...