Commercial salmon season is opening off the coast of California for the first time since 2022 this May. … This season, though, might be less propitious than hoped for [by] fishermen on the North Coast, who have hoped their three years of sacrifice would pay immediate dividends. Salmon fishing will remain closed from the Oregon border to Point Arena (the Klamath Management Zone, or KMZ, and the zone immediately to the south of that) and further restricted from Point Arena to Pigeon Point. … What’s more, California has adopted a quota for the number of salmon to be caught, a model not unlike how salmon fisheries are managed in Washington state, which is a departure from the state’s traditional “wide-open season.”

Other salmon news:

• Coastside News (Calif.): Salmon season set to reopen off Coastside after three-year closure
• Jefferson Public Radio (Ashland, Ore.): California reopens salmon fishing, but Crescent City fishermen still shut out
• The Sentinel (Hanford, Calif.): Ocean salmon fishing makes a comeback
• Redheaded Blackbelt (Susanville, Calif.): Cartoon: ‘Good news for humans, bad news for fish’