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A close-up photo of an adult Chinook salmon in hand.

On Friday, May 16, 2025, the National Marine Fisheries Service published the annual West Coast salmon fishing regulations for federal waters, including those for California’s limited ocean recreational salmon season.

Categories:   Fisheries, Fishing, Salmon

While low Chinook salmon counts have called for the continued closure of Chinook salmon fishing in the Klamath River Basin and mainstem Sacramento River, Chinook fishing opportunities will be allowed in three inland Central Valley rivers for the first time in two years.

Categories:   Drought, FGC, Fisheries, Fishing, General, Klamath Basin, Salmon, Sturgeon, Wildlife
CDFW hatchery workers release juvenile salmon into the Sacramento River from the back of a tanker truck.

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 main stem of the Sacramento River for the first time.

Categories:   Drought, Fisheries, Fishing, Salmon
A Chinook salmon swims within a tributary of the Klamath River.

The California Department of Fish and Wildlife (CDFW) is excited to announce that adult fall-run Chinook salmon have begun occupying and spawning in newly accessible habitat behind the former dam locations on the Klamath River. These are the first observations of anadromous fish returning to California tributaries upstream of the former Iron Gate Dam since 1961.

Categories:   Environment, Fisheries, Habitat Restoration, Hatcheries, Klamath Basin, Salmon
Angler with silver Kokanee fish at Lake Berryessa

As part of the California Department of Fish and Wildlife (CDFW) Hatchery Program’s mission to support fish conservation, angling opportunities and California’s economy, CDFW stocked 1.53 million inland Chinook and Kokanee salmon fingerlings into reservoirs in 17 counties this spring.

Categories:   Fisheries, Fishing, Hatcheries, Salmon

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