Oregon Public Broadcasting

Federal officials have decided for a second year that chinook salmon are too sparse off the west coast to allow much fishing off Oregon or California.

There's to be no fishing at all off California for chinook or "king" salmon, and in Oregon commercial chinook fishing is closed for the summer season, with just ten days of sport fishing around Brookings.

Fishing for coho looks a little better.  But this news follows last year's historic closing of the entire west coast to ocean salmon fishing. 

Glen Spain is with the Pacific Coast Federation of Fishermen's  Associations.  He says actually four of the past five years have seen either very poor fishing or closed seasons for California and most of Oregon.