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2022-2024 News Releases

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Two CDFW wildlife officers inspect lobster traps aboard a commercial fishing vessel.

The California Fish and Game Commission has permanently revoked the commercial fishing license and lobster operator permit of a Los Angeles County resident.

Categories:   FGC, Law Enforcement, Licensing, Marine
An angler fishes from a California beach.  Accompanying image of a mobile phone displaying CDFW's License App for mobile devices.

CDFW launches License App for mobile devices.

Categories:   Fishing, Licensing, Marine, Technology
Underwater photograph of Chinook salmon in the American River

The Pacific Fishery Management Council (PFMC) has produced three options for ocean salmon seasons beginning May 16, 2024. Two of the three alternatives would authorize short ocean salmon season dates and establish small harvest limits for commercial and sport fishing off California in 2024. The third alternative would close the ocean fisheries off California for a second consecutive year.

Categories:   Fisheries, Fishing, Marine
children fishing in a park pond

The Recreational Boating and Fishing Foundation (RBFF) and CDFW announced the 2024 grantees for the George H.W. Bush Vamos A Pescar Education Fund. Approximately $172,800 in funding will help 12 programs in Arkansas, California, Colorado, Florida, Kansas and Rhode Island to bring fishing, boating and aquatic stewardship education opportunities to Hispanic families.

Categories:   Fisheries, Fishing, Grants, Outreach, R3
An underwater photo of fall-run Chinook salmon juveniles at the Fall Creek Fish Hatchery site in Siskiyou County.

CDFW announced today that fall-run Chinook salmon fry released for the first time from its Fall Creek Fish Hatchery in Siskiyou County are presumed to have succumbed to gas bubble disease in the Klamath River.

Categories:   Environment, Fisheries, Hatcheries, Klamath Basin, Salmon

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