Salmon Season Flops: Drought Years Cut North Coast Salmon Population
SEAFOODNEWS.COM [North Bay Business Journal] By James Dunn - August 23, 2017
Soon after the commercial salmon season opened on Aug. 1, Chris Lawson steered his 53-foot boat named Seaward out of the marina at Bodega Bay into ocean waters where he figured chinook salmon would travel. He spent the day trolling, his lines carefully prepared to entice the spirited, iridescent fish.
There were plenty of salmon, but mostly two-year-olds too small for a commercial fisherman to keep...
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