Faced with the collapse of the fall Chinook salmon run in the Sacramento River, the Pacific Fishery Management Council voted Thursday to cancel all commercial salmon fishing this year from the California coast to north-central Oregon. The season was to have begun on May 1.
“This is a complete disaster by any standard,” said Don Hansen, the council chairman.
Representative Mike Thompson, Democrat of California, and the state’s senators, Dianne Feinstein and Barbara Boxer, also Democrats, have said they will seek disaster aid, which is likely to be more than $150 million.
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