Fall-run Chinook salmon migrate and spawn in the Feather River near state infrastructure and the Feather River Fish Hatchery in Oroville in 2024. Credit: Xavier Mascareñas / California Department of Water Resources
By Lily Belli, April 22, 2025
Lookout Santa Cruz
For the third year in a row, California’s commercial salmon fishing season was canceled because of critically low fish stocks, dealing another major blow to the state’s struggling fishing industry. While commercial boats will remain docked, for the first time in two years there will be a limited opening for recreational fishing statewide in two-day to four-day increments throughout the summer.