The river's salmon make up as much as 50% of coastal California's commercial catch.

California officials are debating whether to cancel the salmon fishing season for the third year in a row amid a concerningly low Chinook salmon population in the Sacramento Valley. In 2023 and 2024, ...

Adult fall-run Chinook salmon congregate near the Nimbus Hatchery Fish Ladder on the American River in Sacramento County in this October 2012 file photo. (Photo by Carl Costas/California Department of ...

SACRAMENTO (KCRA) — Salmon fishing officially closed on the American and Sacramento rivers in 2023 due to low abundance estimates, but officials on Tuesday said that hasn’t stopped some from illegally ...

California must adopt new water diversion rules to restore Sacramento and Central Valley salmon runs, protect the Bay-Delta and save coastal fishing jobs. Randy Pench Sacramento Bee file Today, ...

The Trump administration yesterday released a draconian plan to divert more Delta water that will go into effect today, posing an extreme threat to already imperiled salmon, steelhead and other fish ...

Steve Jones, 72, of Clovis with his recent catch: a massive Shaver Lake brown trout at 37½-inches and 24.48 pounds nabbed on Friday May 16 . Courtesy to The Fresno Bee. Fishing report compiled by ...

The low count of returning adult salmon, made by the federally operated Coleman National Fish Hatchery, is preliminary, with several weeks left in the natural spawning period for the Sacramento Valley ...

Authorities seized over 150 pounds of packaged salmon roe from poachers amidst the river’s closure. Sturgeon released, packaged salmon roe seized from illegal fishing operation along Sacramento River ...