EUREKA, CALIF. -- — Instead of preparing to hit the Pacific’s wind-tossed waters next month, veteran fisherman Dave Bitts sat at the counter of a dockside restaurant on Humboldt Bay recently, mulling ...

Officials declared a commercial fishery failure for the West Coast salmon fishery due to historically low salmon returns. Hundreds of thousands of fall Chinook salmon typically return to the ...

Salmon boats will have to sit idle or try their luck with other species off the Oregon coast again this year. Federal fisheries managers voted Wednesday to severely limit the upcoming commercial ...

California commercial salmon fishing will not happen for the third year in a row. The Pacific Fishery Management Council voted to close commercial salmon season for the remainder of the year on ...

Commercial and recreational fishing for Chinook salmon will be banned this year in marine waters off California, and most of Oregon due to historically low fall-run Chinook salmon returns to the ...