Lipripper
Active Member
in California
The chance of the latter is higher than in years. The salmon season was closed in 2008 and 2009 because of catastrophic declines, then had a slow rebirth the past two years as the fishery was rebuilt. Projections this year call for 820,000 adult salmon (mostly 3-year-olds) to migrate from the Bay Area coast to the Sacramento River, and 1.6 million off California's north coast to the Klamath. In 2009, only 39,500 salmon returned through the bay and up the Sacramento River.