Charter fishing crews in California harbors are preparing for recreational salmon fishing to reopen after a two-year shutdown ...

and in recent years the state’s commercial salmon fishing fleet has numbered about 460 vessels. But many boat owners and crew members have recently turned to other work to make ends meet.

(AP) — The 2025 commercial salmon fishing season in California will be ... been hit by the closures and have been devoting their boats to activities ranging from party tours to ash scatterings ...