![]() After laying eggs, they die.Īlready California’s spring-run Chinook are listed as threatened under the Endangered Species Act, while winter-run Chinook are endangered along with the central California coast coho salmon, which has been off-limits to California commercial fishers since the 1990s. After hatching in freshwater, they spend three years on average maturing in the Pacific, where many are snagged by commercial fishermen, before migrating back to their spawning grounds, where conditions are more ideal to give birth. Much of the salmon caught off Oregon originate in California’s Klamath and Sacramento rivers. ![]() ![]() “There will be no wild-caught California salmon to eat unless someone has still got some vacuum sealed last year in their freezer,” said John McManus of the Golden State Salmon Association.Įxperts fear native California salmon, which make up a significant portion of the Pacific north-west’s fishing industry, are in a spiral toward extinction. Now, ocean salmon fishing season is set to be prohibited this year off California and much of Oregon for the second time in 15 years after adult fall-run Chinook, often known as king salmon, returned to California’s rivers in near record-low numbers in 2022. Climate change, meanwhile, threatens food sources for the young Chinook maturing in the Pacific. River water temperatures rose with warm weather, and a Trump-era rollback of federal protections for waterways allowed more water to be diverted to farms.
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