No California Salmon: Fishery to be Shut Down This Year
By
Alastair Bland/CalMatters
on
March 15, 2023 at 9:31AM
Just 62,000 adult fall-run Chinook returned last year to the Sacramento River to spawn, the third lowest return on record and only half of the fishery’s minimum target. Runs on the Klamath River, in far-northern California, also have plunged, hitting 22,000 spawning adult fall-run Chinook last year, the fourth lowest return in 40 years.