Salmon Fishing banned California for a 2nd Year.

[Montanan]

Coastal salmon fishing likely to be banned for a second year amid steep population declines



https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/coastal-salmon-fishing-banned-for-a-second-year-amid-steep-population-declines/ar-BB1lsxMh?ocid=msedgntp&pc=HCTS&cvid=054be7ffe8de44 19a5c8c0c85dd5ee5a&ei=16

Snipet:


". . . low numbers of returning adult salmon last year — as well as low ocean population forecasts — led the Pacific Fishery Management Council to recommend full closure of ocean salmon fisheries.
The fishing season for fall-run chinook salmon would normally run from about May to October.

The National Marine Fisheries Service is expected to act on the council’s recommendation and enact the closure.

The council also recommended that the California Fish and Game Commission close down inland fishing for salmon on the state’s rivers at a meeting next month."



I have fond childhood memories of going on ocean charter boats out of San Francisco fishing for salmon and then similarly taking my nephews on the day trips. We would easily catch our limits and have a grand time. Sad to see that opportunity lost due to the degradation of the fishing population. Well I suppose there is still rock fishing to be had but no challenge in retrieving the bottom fish.

[GordMay]

A February report*, by the fishery council, found that in 2023 just over 6,100 fall-run Chinook, often known as king salmon, returned to the upper Sacramento River to spawn.
The average between 1996 and 2005 was more than 175,000 fish.

California’s spring-run Chinook are listed as threatened, under the Endangered Species Act, while winter-run Chinook are endangered, along with the Central California Coast coho salmon, which has been off-limits to California commercial fishers since the 1990s.

*REVIEW OF 2023 OCEAN SALMON FISHERIES
➥ https://www.pcouncil.org/documents/2...fisheries.pdf/




This Ocean Blue ad campaign played along with the saying, “The colder the water, the better the salmon.”
They created a series of ads, including this one, with poor Henrik, to show just how cold the waters of Norway really are.
There were other funny ads from this campaign, including someone named Sven, skinny-dipping, and a man named Bjorn attempting a backstroke. The campaign is surprisingly funny for a fish ad, so it caught a lot of traction, when it came out. It’s definitely eye-catching, compared to other salmon ads. Now that I think of it, I can’t remember any other ads for salmon!