Regulators put severe restrictions on salmon fishing

Regulators put severe restrictions on salmon fishing

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- SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) - Federal regulators have voted to impose severe restrictions on salmon fishing off the coasts of Oregon and Northern California to protect dwindling populations in the Klamath River.

The Pacific Fishery Management Council decided to close about 700 miles of coastline to commercial salmon fishing for most of June and July.

Those are generally the most productive months of the season.

Federal fishery officials say the closures are the broadest ever imposed on the West Coast salmon fishery.

Fishermen, meanwhile, were relieved that the council voted to allow some fishing this season.

Many had feared a complete ban from Point Sur south of Monterey to Cape Falcon in northern Oregon.

(Copyright 2006 by The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved.)

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