Bill Smith enjoys fishing for feisty rainbow trout in creeks near his home in the Hudson Valley, but every winter for the past 15 years he’s come up to the Salmon River to battle steelhead.

In 2023 and 2024, California officials installed a statewide ban on salmon fishing amid concerningly ... A stock photo of a chinook salmon jumping in a river. A stock photo of a chinook salmon ...

Most of the U.S. West Coast will ban salmon fishing this year in an effort to protect the species' population. California in particular has seen a significant hit to the salmon stock, requiring ...