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The council did propose one option that would allow limited fishing, but the likelihood of any significant commercial or sport fishing this year is minimal, fisheries experts said. So few fall-run chinook came back to spawn in the Sacramento River and its tributaries last fall that the fishery council is required under its management plan to halt fishing throughout the salmon habitat, which is all along the California and Oregon coasts. One of the proposals by the 14-member council - which is made up of commercial and sportfishing representatives, conservationists, biologists, and wildlife agency representatives - would close the entire salmon fishing season this year. The National Marine Fisheries Service is expected to approve the final decision on the salmon fishing season the second week of April. The Sacramento fall spawning season was the last great salmon run along the giant Central Valley river system, including the San Joaquin River, where leaping, wriggling chinook were once so plentiful that old-timers recalled reaching in and simply plucking fish right out of the water. The state is expected to follow the lead of the feds and close that season during a meeting in April, said spokesman Harry Morse, of the California Department of Fish and Game, which controls fishing within three miles of the coast. read more

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