Fishery scientists announce dismal 2023 outlook for CA salmon

  • Published on March 3rd, 2023

This is the press release from the California Department of Fish and Wildlife reporting on the CDFW’’s Salmon Information Webinar that took place yesterday. Not mentioned in the press release is that the vast majority of participants showed their vocal support for an ocean and river salmon fishing closure like that one in 2008-2009 when salmon stocks declined to a historic low — and speaker after speaker challenged the poor management by state and federal governments that resulted in this very preventable disaster.

This endangered spring-run Chinook salmon perished during a fish kill in the Butte Creek watershed in March 2021. Photo by Dan Bacher.
This endangered spring-run Chinook salmon perished during a fish kill in the Butte Creek watershed in March 2021. Photo by Dan Bacher.

By Dan Bacher

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Dan Bacher is an environmental journalist in Sacramento who focuses on California's water issues, a healthy environment for the salmon fishery of the Northwest, and the attempts by big agriculture and big oil to hog all the water.