The announcement by the Pacific Fishery Management Council also announced that recreational ocean salmon fishing will be “extremely limited,” but allowed for the first time since 2022. The PFMC announcement said the decision was because of the extremely low returns of fall,

Regulators have voted to ban commercial fishing for Chinook salmon in California for an unprecedented third straight year because of low population numbers.

Californians will soon be able to fish for salmon in the ocean for the first time in years, according to a release from the California Department of Fish and Wildlife.