The California Department of Fish and Wildlife and NOAA Fisheries agreed to include the tribe as a “co-equal” in decisions about efforts to rebuild the salmon population. But this year, regulators decided to shut down the fishing season along the California coast for the second time in history because of the major declines in salmon populations. The most numerous are the fall-run and late-fall-run Chinook, which support commercial and recreational fisheries. In addition to the endangered winter-run Chinook, there is the spring-run Chinook, which is listed as threatened under the Endangered Species Act. “That’s the only way that those salmon are going to restore their numbers,” she said.īiologists track the populations of distinct runs of salmon in the Sacramento River, each named for the season they return from the Pacific.

Without that sort of passage, Sisk said, “we know there’s no point in bringing New Zealand salmon back or putting salmon on the McCloud.” The agreements also call for analyzing the feasibility of building a fish passage that would allow salmon to travel around the dam. Under the agreements, state and federal agencies pledged to study the possible reintroduction of Chinook from New Zealand. Climate & Environment Salmon fishing banned along California coast as population plummetsĬalifornia’s Chinook salmon population is suffering, forcing the cancellation of the fishing season along the Pacific coast.

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