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 ...

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 ...

A commercial fishing hoist dangles among crab traps at Santa Cruz Harbor in Santa Cruz. (Nic Coury / For The Times) Fishery regulators on Tuesday called for shutting down commercial salmon fishing ...

This summer, commercial salmon trollers and sport anglers in California and along most of Oregon's coast won't be allowed to pluck a single chinook salmon from the ocean, an unprecedented shutdown.