“Things look very, very bad for the salmon season this year, unless you’re a salmon. Then it looks damned good!”
So reads the April 7 Lawson’s Landing Fishing Report by Willy Vogler. Three days later, federal fishery managers voted unanimously to ban all commercial and recreational salmon fishing in California for the second year in a row, citing numerous climate-related and human-caused disasters, from algal blooms to water diversions, drought and wildfire. Even with…