California, Oregon Ban Salmon Fishing for 2023 Amid Dwindling Fish Population

Chinook Salmon enter a tank before they are tagged at the California Department of Fish and Wildlife's Feather River Hatchery after climbing a fish ladder just below the Lake Oroville dam during the California drought emergency in Oroville, Calif., on May 27, 2021. Patrick T. Fallon/AFP via Getty Images

Dwindling salmon populations in California and Oregon rivers prompted the National Marine Fisheries Service to close commercial and sports fishing season in both states on March 15.

Salmon fishing season will remain closed in California and most of Oregon until 2024.