Oregon Democrats push feds to declare disaster for coast salmon fisheries

Commercial salmon fishing in California will be closed for a third year in a row

Fishing regulators have voted to close the 2025 commercial salmon fishing season in California for an unprecedented third year running.

Commercial salmon season is shut down — again. Will California's iconic fish ever recover?

In summary While it’s an unprecedented third year in a row for no commercially caught salmon, brief windows will be allowed for sportsfishing in California. Facing the continued collapse of Chinook salmon, officials today shut down California’s commercial salmon fishing season for an unprecedented third year in a row.  Under the decision by an interstate fisheries agency, recreational salmon fishing will be allowed in California for only brief w…

Oregon Democrats push feds to declare disaster for coast salmon fisheries

For the seventh time in less than a decade, Oregon’s commercial fishermen, governor and congressional delegation are asking for federal aid to soften the blow of climate change on the state’s ocean salmon fisheries.Members of the Oregon Salmon Commission in January asked Gov. Tina Kotek to request a federal fishery resource disaster declaration from the U.S. Department of Commerce, over Oregon’s poor 2024 coastal chinook salmon season — the seve…

Oregon's Congressional delegation urges fishery disaster declaration

U.S. Senator Jeff Merkley is leadeing his Democratic colleagues in the Oregon delegation—Senator Ron Wyden and U.S. Representatives Suzanne Bonamici (OR-01), Val Hoyle (OR-04), Andrea Salinas (OR-06), Maxine Dexter (OR-03), and Janelle Bynum (OR-05)—in urging the U.S. Department of Commerce…

Oregon lawmakers urge Trump administration to declare fishery disaster

PORTLAND, Ore. (KOIN) – A group of Oregon Democratic lawmakers are urging the Trump administration to declare a fishery disaster in the state after a drop in the salmon population. In an April 11 letter to Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick, the lawmakers asked the administration to approve Governor Tina Kotek's disaster declaration request after Oregon's troll salmon fishery struggled from the worsening effects of climate change in 2024 -- from …

Trump's NOAA firings leave Northwest workers in 'purgatory'

Fisheries scientists who were fired by the Trump administration say they've been living in limbo as their work is sidelined.