California must adopt new water diversion rules to restore Sacramento and Central Valley salmon runs, protect the Bay-Delta and save coastal fishing jobs. Randy Pench Sacramento Bee file Today, ...

California officials are debating whether to cancel the salmon fishing season for the third year in a row amid a concerningly low Chinook salmon population in the Sacramento Valley. In 2023 and 2024, ...

Adult fall-run Chinook salmon congregate near the Nimbus Hatchery Fish Ladder on the American River in Sacramento County in this October 2012 file photo. (Photo by Carl Costas/California Department of ...

The Trump administration yesterday released a draconian plan to divert more Delta water that will go into effect today, posing an extreme threat to already imperiled salmon, steelhead and other fish ...

Gov. Newsom wants to accelerate a proposed $20-billion water tunnel project in the Sacramento-San Joaquin River Delta by simplifying permitting and limiting legal challenges. Newsom’s proposal drew ...

The question for the past year on most northern California anglers’ lips has been: Will there be a salmon season in 2025? That question has changed to: Why bother having a salmon season? That question ...

Delta marsh loss converts juvenile salmon refuge into a seasonally lethal zone Dams, levees and species introductions fragment habitat and amplify predation Public ignorance and fractured politics ...

Our salmon fishing in California has been closed the last two seasons. This year the DF&W has partially opened the season. There are two windows open to fish in the ocean, one occurred on the first ...

The low count of returning adult salmon, made by the federally operated Coleman National Fish Hatchery, is preliminary, with several weeks left in the natural spawning period for the Sacramento Valley ...

Authorities seized over 150 pounds of packaged salmon roe from poachers amidst the river’s closure. Sturgeon released, packaged salmon roe seized from illegal fishing operation along Sacramento River ...