A male chinook salmon jumps out of the water at it swims up the American River near the Nimbus Fish Hatchery in 2018.. - Hector Amezcua/The Sacramento Bee/TNS
State officials were supposed to take a conservative approach to approving salmon fishing season this year — and they did. California’s fishing season had been scheduled to open April 1. Instead, as a result of low salmon projections, the seasonhas been canceled. Salmon provides more to the state than meets the eye. “People don’t realize how much California’s a salmon state,” said Micheal Milstein, a National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration spokesman. “The Sacramento River is one of the big salmon rivers off the West Coast.” As commercial and sport fishing comes to a pause this year, he...
