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    Plummeting salmon population could trigger closure of fishing season in California waters

    by Ian James, Los Angeles Times Mar 02, 2023 3 minutes
    Alex Arrow, a biological science technician, pours a bucket of juvenile Chinook salmon back into Battle Creek, California, after counting them near Coleman National Fish Hatchery, in Anderson, last year.

    California Chinook salmon populations have fallen to their lowest levels in years, according to new estimates released by state and federal scientists — a decline that could trigger a shutdown of the commercial and recreational fishing season along the coast.

    “The salmon are struggling,” said Chuck Bonham, director of the California Department of Fish and Wildlife. “And we have great concern about their future, knowing we are fully committed to rebuilding them and saving them.”

    Bonham said the decline is part of a decades-long trend, and the past three years of record drought

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