Commercial, sport salmon season banned for the year (California and most of Oregon)

[Kadie]

Commercial, sport salmon season banned for the year
John Koopman, Chronicle Staff Writer

Thursday, April 10, 2008

(04-10) 18:33 PDT SAN FRANCISCO -- There will be no commercial or recreational salmon fishing in California and most of Oregon this year.

The Pacific Fishery Management Council decided tonight to cancel the chinook fishing season in an effort to reverse the catastrophic disappearance of California's fabled run of the pink fish popularly known as king salmon.

"I think it's probably the right thing to do," said Barbara Emley, 64, who has run a commercial fishing boat with her husband out of Fisherman's Wharf since 1985.

"It's tough, though. We're going to lose our (fishing) community. People are going to have to figure out what to do with five months of no income."


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http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2008/04/10/BAO6103NBB.DTL&tsp=1

[blue sky at night]

1. wondering how many other people...

will be facing making similar decisions in the near future; get a new vocation or starve.