The minimum size limit for recreational California sheephead is 12 inches total length, and the daily bag limit is two fish. They are open to shore-based anglers year-round, and to boaters from ...

Dock Totals 3/9 – 3/15: 497 anglers aboard 18 half-day to 3-day trips out of San Diego landings over the past week caught 26 ...

Sheephead Fish: The Bold Transformers (image credits: unsplash) Sheephead fish, found in the waters off the coast of California, are known for their ability to change from female to male. This ...

Sheephead Fish: The Bold Transformers (image credits: unsplash) Sheephead fish, found in the waters off the coast of California, are known for their ability to change from female to male. This ...

With salmon fishing barred off the California coast for two years, fishermen have been running historic boat tours, party ...

California's fishing fleet depends on catching Chinook salmon. Low population numbers could lead regulators to shut down or sharply limit fishing this year.

Languages: English. In 2023 and 2024, California officials installed a statewide ban on salmon fishing amid concerningly low population numbers of the Sacramento Valley's fall-run Chinook salmon.

A long-running fight over California water and the fate of a tiny fish found a new front with a House measure to strip federal protections from the longfin smelt.

Why bother having a salmon season? That question is based upon the Department of Fish and Wildlife’s annual salmon ...

Jamie O’Neill, owner of Seattle-based Dock Street Brokers, said many of California’s commercial salmon fishermen are getting out of the business, selling their permits or simply letting them expire.

California's salmon population has declined so severely over the last several years that regulators canceled the fishing season in 2023 and again in 2024. This year, state estimates show the ...