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State health agencies have recommended restricting the take of northern anchovy to bait use only for both the commercial and recreational fisheries in Monterey Bay after determining anchovies contain elevated levels of domoic acid.

Adult Chinook salmon fishing on the Lower Klamath River will close on Sunday, September 13 at 11:59 p.m. as the area quota has been met.

As the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service begins the scientific process of determining whether to delist Mexican wolves and the gray wolf, California remains committed to both endangered species recovery under state and federal law while also ensuring the livelihood of ranchers in California

The spit fishery at the mouth of the Klamath River will be closed to angling at 11:59 p.m. on Wednesday, September 2. Based on CDFW projections of the recreational fall-run Chinook Salmon harvest, anglers will have met the “spit area” adult fall-run Chinook Salmon quota of 15 percent of the total Klamath River Basin recreational allocation of fish caught below the Highway 101 bridge.

One of the most popular days of the year for hunters in California is fast-approaching – the September 1 dove season opener.