Salmon fishing season canceled for 2023 in California
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- Salmon season is closed for all of 2023 in California. The Dept. of Fish and Wildlife says the drought from recent years limited salmon's ability to breed, and now there aren't enough to open the commercial season. Fishers say it is a massive financial burden. abc7ne.ws/3yLbDS9
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I feel terrible for the fisherman losing income, hopefully they can make it somehow… however like the fisheries dept. said, if salmon can’t breed then they need time to recover, good stewardship of fisheries is far more important than allowing people to make money until the fish population is destroyed completely.
They can fish for something else or take on paying passengers to fish
Commercial fishing needs to end for all species period
@@kathleenelias0 Commercial fishing boats are not permitted to have paying passengers to fish. Only the sportfishing charter boats are allowed to do that.
they just want more sushi
yeah, that's it
Washington state allowed commercial fishing in Puget Sound despite dwindling stocks of fish in the 1980s. The stocks of fish have still not recovered.
Large problem is foreign countries like Russia pull up off our shore and fish unregulated and no limits while American fishing vessels are held to a crazy high standard. The American Fleet is docked while foreign fishing vessels are fishing our waters unchecked.
You mean China? Russia has no need to fish here, they have their own salmon industry off their coast as well as their streams and rivers that are as large as ours. Show me proof of that, as a commercial US fisherman I would like to see that particular documented information.
@@elcajoia619 My family members who fish commercially in Alaska and Oregon have both told me the same thing. China and Russia's waters are both so over fished they come here. Very little we can do as we cannot pursue over suspected or even provable claims.
@@trussmonkey5910
Well my family Fishes commercially Kodiak/Seattle/San Diego, never once rumors of Russians fishing our waters, Chinese in the 90's was a problem near Bristol area of Alaska, but other than that, narrative rumor mill.
Again somebody elses foult
So you're saying the Chinese are bringing ships across the ocean to fish in San Francisco instead because the fish on this side of the Atlantic taste better? What nonsense, where the proof Russians and Chinese are stealing our fish? Sounds to me like a combination of climate change because of the drought has resulted in salmon being unable to make it back up riverbanks to lay eggs. There were a bunch of salmon dying the last few years not able to get through shallow waters, each of those would have laid thousands of eggs if conditions were normal. It turns out when you cut down trees your grandfather's grew and don't plant new ones for the next generation, you no longer have shade from the sun so this is no surprise since california government has been selling selling off our water to big corps while we starve because the fish all die.
Yes, give these Salmon a chance to breed!!
I saw myself a good spawn of Chinook salmon in the upper Klamath River.
Hello , DFG , raise and release baby salmon at mouths of rivers !! Even there never was salmon there before , the baby salmon will grow up and come to where they were released !! In 4 years we will have more salmon then we know what to do with !!
Won't work unless you get rid of sea lions.
Go to the mouth of the Smith River in NorCal, and count how many are just waiting for salmon to show up and devour them.
Same would happen. Sea Lions aren't dumb. They go wherever the food sources are. At Bonneville dam. Ballard Locks in Seattle as examples.
Let the Indians harvest marine mammals like they did it in the past.
Makah Indians harvest gray whales at Neah Bay as an example.
California fishery is to blame. Back in 80s I remember salmon fishing and the charter boats would go out 3 times a day catching limits of salmon every day.they were big salmon 30 to 40lbs. Limiting the water to rivers not allowing salmon to breed. Look at new Zealand and there river free flowing rivers. Other countries that have good salmon runs with free flowing river.
Noooooo!!! The consequences of our actions!
Yes, the consequences of raising self loathing snowflakes like yourself will be a burden to society for a millenia.
They should let us know how we can help these fishermen’s
Agriculture uses 70% of the water, growing unsustainable crops and the state does nothing to preserve nature, while residents and business use less then 7%
Heading toward the San Gabriel mtn. pass out of Barstow I COULDN'T BELIEVE the miles and miles of canopied pistachio and almond orchards. You could feed a horned toad in that area or grow ANYTHING. maybe one desert tortoise and a barrel cactus. How did the corps. get teh WATER RIGHTS on leased desert land???
@@louisliu5638 The water rights date back to the settler days. Probably was considered essential to allow settlers who lived there to dig a well or tap a river so they could survive. Over the years, agricorps bought the land from the individual owners, including the water rights. The proper legal solution is for the state to exercise eminent domain - forcibly take or reduce the water rights while compensating the owners for the decrease in land value that would cause. But obviously the state doesn't want to spend that much money. So nothing gets done. Important lesson that the government giving stuff away willy-nilly to please constituents can come back to bite us in the long run.
Also, the salmon were originally decimated by damming many of the rivers in central and northern California (for irrigation, flood control, and hydroelectric power). Once the salmon populations declined to threatened or endangered levels, they became so susceptible to things like drought as to make a fishery shutdown necessary. IOW, drought, agriculture, and fishing are not the direct cause of the decline in salmon, they're just exacerbating factors.
ya, Big Aggressive Aggriculture has got to go, future of farming is a return to small farms, the Omegafarms are more akin to mining than farming, they strip our soils and pollute our air and water, they leave dustbowls wherever they go, and the dust blows away
Delta Smelt lover.
@@redsky7527 no..king salkon
Open up for recreational fishing, commercial should be restricted to give opportunity for anglers
More money is spent on recreational fishing than commercial.
A salmon may be worth $150 to the commercial fisherman, but the sport fisherman the skys the limit on what is spent on boats, gear, gas, hotel, food etc,
Had California been properly managing the salmon industry all these years, this would've never been a problem
It has been!
Not really we have every country from vietnam spain and france just outside our 200 mile zone clearing out the ocean all the way up to the aleutian islands. Yet our governments dont do anything about it
@@freetimeflip6438
Aleutian islands start just off the coast of Russia.
Why not catch a large quantity of a different breed?
Nothing else they can catch locally here is so high demand, more affordable to catch lots of, and so profitable a product to sell. They would have to leave their long time home town and go to a different region with their families where they would have to start over. Most profitable fisheries here are overfished already.
Go catch one yourself
why was it canceled??
Instead of closing it they could have just lowered the quota or limit of salmon they could take. They did the same thing for striper over here on east coast and the stripers have come back 10 fold they didn't need to shut the season to do it. I bet this will make zero impact by next year this stuff takes years to make and effect. It took 10 plus years for the striper fishery to get back to where it was but. They never closed the season down tho just gotta be patient.
Other states there is your answer, prefer not to pay inflated salmon prices thanks!
It’s a shame for the fishermen, but the year off and all the rain should really help.
I was fishing for trout in the Klamath River this year from July to October.
At the mouth of the Scott river, you could count hundreds of King salmon in September.
The upper part of the river was full of salmon all the way to I-5. First time I've seen this part of the river not choked with green algae. The removal of dams and increased water flows really helped.
When Iron gate gets taken out, I expect to see even more improvement in water quality.
Baby fish were in good numbers this year. So were the famed half pounders.
I saw it myself. So have hope for the Klamath.
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Charter boats and commercial fishinh should have stricter regulatuons and limits, charter boats should have limits on amount of people they could take with them, and how many times they can go out in a month.
you would have to wait for years for fish populations to rebound. these fishermen knew that since the 80s.
Go educate yourself on the lifecycle of Chinook Salmon, and you'll see how wrong your statement is.
You brain dead. Salmon gonna die at the end of its cycle.
They are discussing the current drought and it's effects, not events 40 plus years ago.
@@knowsyourmom current drought? Huh?
@@Tiggitytye The drough6t that obviously just ended, but which the friggin state has NOT declared over. that drought
Just eliminating all food supplies
I see there are a lot of "salmon experts" in the comments. I suggest you all change careers quick, to save the salmon and the fisheries.
Yeah we know you got the salmon stamp ....but not today son not today !!
"Fish markets and restaurants are taking the hit, and that will be passed on to you" or yanno you can stay away from eating salmon for a year... I dunno crazy stuff like that.
Pull planetary Engineering stunts and you get outcomes like this... almonds instead of oranges
We need major contractions in the fishing industry across the board. Every national fleet needs dramatic downsizing. On the high seas, coastal, everywhere! Scientific papers from 15 years ago documented how 90% of the large fish in the entire global oceans are gone. Japan and now China are the worst offenders in rapacious overfishing, but it is still all of us.
Chinese are targeting these fish and other fisheries around the world sad to see government doesn't do anything to stop them ..
Lol NOT true. Misinformation dude. Js
If you can fish for crab, can you crab for fish ?
all those catch and cook youtubers ate all of our fish!
😅
Lol
Make sure all tributaries are clean and opened up for salmon to spawn in the Sacramento River. And fine heavy if people polute them.
As a long time fisherman this post is not meant to be snarky. That’s what’s necessary to preserve the salmon population in that fishery. Over fishing will only end up ruining the fishery forever and they’d harp about that! These people can whine and complain all they like. All they care about is themselves, not the big picture. Thinking it’s an unlimited resource just shows their ignorance. Not having a plan B and adjusting to what is available and catchable isn’t the department of wildlife’s problem or fault. I have NO empathy for this greedy thinking. The salmon they took last year is only because the DNR shut it down when this happened before. Sorry Charlie you put yourselves in this position. Adjust. 👎🏼
Yeah, but you can overfish in international waters like the Chinese & Spainards do right?
Really? Where do you fish here in California? Do you know anything about commercial fishing of salmon here in california?
Do you know what you are talking about? Even my 10 years old boy knows salmon will die at the end of its life cycle.
@@elcajoia619 Stop. Your logic is flawed. Your point means nothing to me. See the bigger picture. Go away and stop bothering me.
@@ahlok925 if they live to spawn next year it works.
I love Scoma’s especially in Sausalito.
Repair the rivers so the fish can breed. Its that simple, conceptually.
That will help.
Gotta give em a break
I quit eating seafood a couple years ago. Our oceans cannot sustain the demand for seafood anymore. Plus, if the fish eaten does not come from a U.S. based company, one could be supporting slavery unknowingly. 😢
Im happy they put it on pause because salmon do need to breed and people need to calm down
I heard one year california's fishing department let baby salmons into the rivers during peak striper time and they just got devoured
If this had happened in the 80's then maybe people would have done something. Too late now. Ya'll ain't gonna have anything now.
Then start conserving salmon, the easy part is grabbing fish out of the water to sell. There's no escape for fishes with gadgets humans use.
If salmon fishing is open. I always selectively fished. Never take a female. Only males of average size. Not the largest fish, male either.
Some fisherman have nearly a blood lust for the female fish, because they use the eggs to fish steelhead.
Should have forced industry to protect clean water
How about some help for the fisherman, like the banks!
US is the richest country in the world, temporarily subsidise the salmon fisherfolks impacted, and move on, don't force 50 states to suddenly start paying $50 per tin of salmon.
If you want to understand this don't look at California. These fish spend about 5 years in the waters near Kamchatka and the Chinese have so polluted the ocean that they killed the fish and they also fish without limits or reason over there
Ive been a tribal fisherman for over 40 years, should shut All commercial fishing down for 7 year's ❤ at least 3 , resource is hurting, need vision for future generations ❤
Advocate to start up traditional harvest for marine mammals, Sea Lions in particular.
Take them off the endangered list.
Start at the mouth of the Smith River in NorCal.
you guys got it all wrong...if we want to increase the fishery it would take about five year or less! That's right 5 years or less. Spend the money to clean up the Guadalupe and dredge the silt. enhance the tributaries' creeks, and get rid of the Cement washes and return them to creeks but with flood control in mind...it can be done. The fish are returning and look how bad the creeks are!
Maybe plastic/trash clean up?! Write it off on the taxes somehow...
going to be a shortage of almost everything soon
Sorry for the fishermen/women but the rest of us can go without for awhile.
It's for the Health of fish and Humans are upset, disgusting.
Tell that to China
Its for the health of the unborn child and humans are upset, disgusting.
@@danielburgess1769 my body my choice
Let’s hope newsom bails out these fishermen like he did his own wineries via the svb bailout
Fat chance! Newsom didn't even disclose his personal & business bank accounts when lobbying DC to bail out SVB. Total fraud!
FYI Biden did the SVB bailout but I totally get that facts don't matter to you
Salmon is life
Californias water is sent to irrigate southern Cal desert farms....the salmon need water to migrate....2015 the salmon began showing low numbers....the fish are not able to migrate now their not returning....2015 I knew the Salmon ecosystem was broken is San Fransico bay....I have followed salmon migration for thirty years...last ten I knew it would collaps....
banner salmon year last year, it's cyclic
@@Tiggitytye You have not seen what I have seen your in denial...
@@danielraymadden it's "you're" and I've probably seen a lot more than you'd give me credit for. I know many commercial fishermen and party boat captians, and even a few river guides. I've fished salmon both salt and freshwater for over 35 years. How about you?
Majority of socal water comes from the Colorado River
Wasting water growing food
I hope the rest of the world also suspends thier salmon season.
I think fish and game could fix the return numbers but then they wouldn't get all the extra grant money every year to recover a threaten species
The sea lions have eaten em all
Well when there's no fish to catch then thats it.
Something don't sound right on the Stanislaus River they have record numbers of salmon last year fishbio put up gates across the rivers an cages them it's not a good thing
Why
Our farmers in California don’t care. Many of our rivers dry up completely during the summer due to the many mega reservoirs, exacerbated by the ever stronger droughts.
They do need to let the Salmon reproduce.
It’s a wrap like mtv and mtv cribs prepare for hard times
Feed my family...go get EBT to feed your family..I SUPPORT salmon
Buy sockeye salmon. It should be cheap
the salmon are leaving because of the crime in the city
You mean you can't keep taking and taking from nature? There's a limit?....It can't be because you destroyed all your fish habitat could it? I mean the fish paid in habitat so you could drink their enviroment. "Dam" , that's not good
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People don’t need salmon just eat carp
This is America not some 3rd world country....
We dont need cattle just eat dog or cat.... stupid Americans are so wasteful
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Humanity ain't gonna give up on that greed and mass suicide. I only hope that there's a little life left over. 💚 🌎 💜
I support the Commercial Salmon Fishermen and Native Americans over the dewatering Farmers.
Ohh boohoo these comercial fishermen see no wrong with fishing the oceans completly empty.
PAY THEM TO STOP CHINESE BOATS THEN.
I don’t mind my tax money helping those folks like that.
Just give them some Navy support if they NEED it.
Semper fi earthlings
Just a taste of what is Ahead ! Fisheries are Crashing all over the Earth ! Oceans are Super Heating, Florida just recorded water temps of 101 degrees, Galveston recently recorded air temps on the coast 125 degrees ! July 2023 is the Hottest Month Ever Recorded, it was by far the hottest month I haver ever seen in my life ! Earth is in uncharted territory climate wise, whole coral reefs dying !! Whole Forests Dying and half the Earth is on fire now, very little if any real breathable air now
I prefer ling cod over salmon anyway
Y’all want fish come on over to the TX coast.. Fish them hard heads
It's all about how you vote!! Enjoy
The Klamath needs to be restored 😢
long over due. there better not be a sport seaason
There is always steak.
too many people
Find better ways to farm *healthy* salmon instead.
Let the salmon population recover!!!
is this due to fukashima still leaking radiation into the pacific
they need to stop commercial salmon period... salmons are going extinct cause of these commercial fisherman
BS….How in the “F” do you know salmon are going extinct? Are you privy to some supernatural prophesy looking glass which specifically warns of the salmon species demise?
NO…..you don’t know
Dear lord: I love it when imbeciles make asinine predictions. After all, Greta Thunberg and Al Gore proclaimed the ice caps were to melt before 2023? How’s that working out?
And the False speaker's who say u need the fish oils.
Tell that to china
You people make up 💩 as you go.
Stop whining. Just get a different job or biz. Good the department of fisheries looking after the resource.
California has fallen.....
Eat crickets!
Just go to alaska
I need wild caught salmon
Eat vegetables
eat 💩
Fish killers
Go Vegan now save the planet in the process. There is not enough fish in the sea. Without fish plankton will die and we will lose oksygen supply. All these fishermen could use their boats to clean up the ocean.
BS!
Take a course in Permaculture, start the sustainable journey, build Resilience into your life.
Find some nice-sounding words that are just vague enough so that no one questions what they mean in practical terms, then spew them in YT chat as if you have True Insight.
Its time to Cancel War Season from those criminal pedophileelites
Local sustainable fish with zero to little travel is worse than importing farm raised salmon fully of toxins shipped in a plane? Makes a whole lotta sense from this dfg…
CA drought is over! Bring in the SALMON!
Anyone want to recall Newsom tearing down the dams that held the water for the waterways instead of just letting it run into the ocean?
No? Keep your head on the sand as long as he "gives you what your want".
Make Fishing Great Again.🧂🧂🇺🇸
shouldn't build your career in an unsustainable industry. Salmon will go instinct one day don't rely on it for money
Do you know a single thing about the regulations in the fishing industry for the last 30 years in the State, just one?
@@elcajoia619 nope, don’t care, don’t need to know. I’m not stupid enough to build my career around something unsustainable
this is why the California department of fish and wildlife makes scientific analysis on the the quantity of all fish ..sometimes they will allow fishing in some areas,and close down others...just for the commercial and sports fishermen dont wipe out a species ..because if it was left up to them, they would extinct anything they can sell in one season !
@dave diamond
You mean the University of California?
@FeedingTime I'm a local life long northern California non commercial fisherman and commercial fishing needs to shut down for all species. If you want fish go out and get it yourself yuppie
funny, i didn't think this would be comment section with the dumbest people i'd find on the interwebs today....
Leave the fish in the ocean