After three years of depressing news, there’s finally enough salmon to allow for fishing everywhere on the West Coast this summer.
After three years of depressing news, there’s finally enough salmon to allow for fishing everywhere on the West Coast this summer.
Chinook Salmon Courtesy USGS
After a few brutal years, things are looking somewhat better for Oregon’s coastal salmon fishermen.
The Pacific Fishery Management Council released its salmon forecast for 2010. Salmon numbers on the Sacramento and Klamath rivers are high enough to allow for some kind of commercial fishing season off Southern Oregon and California.
Along the Northern Oregon and Washington coasts, the situation looks better. Coho numbers are down about a third from last year, but Chinook numbers are up.
Still to be determined… how much actual fishing will be allowed.
