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<p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Salmon
season may shut down again this year<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class=byline1><span style='font-size:8.0pt'><a
href="mailto:pfimrite@sfchronicle.com"><span style='color:#015660;text-decoration:
none'>Peter Fimrite, Chronicle Staff Writer</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=date1><span style='font-size:8.0pt'>Tuesday, March 10, 2009<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p style='line-height:21.0pt'><strong>(03-09) 18:07 PST San Francisco</strong><b>
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<p style='line-height:21.0pt'><b>You know the fish aren't jumpin' when the
very people who make their living reeling in chinook salmon are proposing a
ban on ocean fishing for a second straight year.<o:p></o:p></b></p>
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<p style='line-height:21.0pt'><b>That is exactly what happened Monday at the
annual Pacific Fishery Management Council meetings in Seattle, where the gory
details of the catastrophic decline of California's salmon has become
woefully apparent.<o:p></o:p></b></p>
<p style='line-height:21.0pt'><b>Fishing-industry representatives on a council
advisory panel looked at the dismal state of the fall run of Sacramento River
salmon and proposed closing the 2009 ocean salmon fishing season, except,
perhaps, for a bit of recreational fishing near the Oregon border.<o:p></o:p></b></p>
<p style='line-height:21.0pt'><b>"It is pretty simple in California,"
said Peter Dygert, a fishery biologist for the National Oceanic Atmospheric
Administration's fisheries service. "Both the recreational and
commercial trollers on the advisory panel have proposed no fishing."<o:p></o:p></b></p>
<p style='line-height:21.0pt'><b>The management council, a 14-member federal
panel that manages the Pacific Coast fishery, is expected to come up with
three options for ocean fishing after a week of testimony and the digestion
of mounds of documents and studies.<o:p></o:p></b></p>
<p style='line-height:21.0pt'><b>There isn't much mystery about what the
council will propose, given that the folks most likely to lobby for more
fishing are proposing the elimination of the season. The only thing to
decide, really, is whether to allow recreational fishing on certain dates in
the summer from the Oregon border south to a spot near the mouth of the
Klamath River, which had a slightly better salmon return than the Central
Valley river system.<o:p></o:p></b></p>
<p style='line-height:21.0pt'><b>The current proposals would allow
sportfishing over the July 4 weekend and from Aug. 15 to Sept. 7. An
alternate plan would allow it only from Aug. 29 to Sept. 7. <o:p></o:p></b></p>
<p style='line-height:21.0pt'><b>Biologists estimated only 66,000 adult
salmon returned to spawn last fall in the Sacramento and San Joaquin rivers,
based on a count of egg nests in the river bed. It was the lowest return on
record. The collapse caused regulators to ban ocean salmon fishing in
California and most of Oregon last year.<o:p></o:p></b></p>
<p style='line-height:21.0pt'><b>The collapse led to an emergency declaration
and appropriation of federal disaster assistance to keep fishing businesses
alive. <o:p></o:p></b></p>
<p style='line-height:21.0pt'><b>The dismal spawning numbers are expected to
continue this year. Fisheries biologists are projecting that the fall run of
chinook in the system this year will be a little bit higher than last year.
Still, the numbers will barely reach the council's spawning goals even if
there is no fishing, according to the projections.<o:p></o:p></b></p>
<p style='line-height:21.0pt'><b>Both the Klamath and Sacramento rivers have
suffered recently from extremely low returns. Declines have also been seen in
the Columbia-Snake River System over the past several years.<o:p></o:p></b></p>
<p style='line-height:21.0pt'><b>Last year, more than 2,200 fishermen and
fishing-related business workers lost their jobs. Fishing communities and
fishing-related businesses lost more than $250 million, according to some
estimates. Indirect economic impacts were even higher, according to fishing
industry representatives. <o:p></o:p></b></p>
<p style='line-height:21.0pt'><b>The collapse in California is especially
troubling because the Central Valley fall run of chinook has for many years
been the backbone of the West Coast fishing industry. Big salmon from the
Sacramento River have been reeled in as far north as Alaska, according to
biologists. <o:p></o:p></b></p>
<p style='line-height:21.0pt'><b>The council is considering allowing fishing
of only hatchery fish - identifiable because their fleshy adipose fins are
removed - off the Oregon coast. Meanwhile, more than 75 commercial and
recreational fishing associations and conservation organizations signed a
letter Monday urging President Obama to create a new position of salmon
director to help restore the West Coast salmon populations, protect fishing
jobs and rebuild the salmon economy.<o:p></o:p></b></p>
<p style='line-height:21.0pt'><b>A final decision on the ban and the hatchery
fishing is expected in early April.</b><span style='font-size:9.5pt'><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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