Salmon ban hits California's fishing industry

  • 10 months ago
Californian fisher Sarah Bates would ordinarily be working out at sea, but a ban on fishing salmon has confined her boat to the harbor. "It's a little demoralizing" she says, "not to have our fishery this year". The ban, which lasts until September, is aimed at helping the salmon recover, as a decades-long drought has reduced their river habitat and caused numbers to plunge.

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