California’s commercial salmon season will be canceled for the third straight year, but sport fishing enthusiasts will have a narrow opportunity—just two days—to catch chinook this spring. Willie Vogler, who runs Lawson’s Landing campground in Dillon Beach and writes a fishing blog, expects chaos. “There’s a lot of pent-up desire to go salmon fishing,” he told the Light. “There will probably be fistfights at the launch ramps. I would rather just sit and watch than participate.” The salmon season traditionally ran for several months from spring until fall, but stocks have declined due to drought, climate change, poor river conditions and other factors. As a result, the Pacific Fishery Management Council, which oversees fishing in Washington, Oregon and California, announced on April 15 that it was recommending canceling the commercial season for a third consecutive year. It proposed a statewide two-day sport season on June 7 and 8, with a total harvest of 7,000 chinook salmon. If the limit is not reached in those two days, the fishery will open again on July 5 and July 6. For ocean waters between Point Reyes and Point Sur, an additional brief season will run from Sept. 4 to 7, with a limit of 7,500 fish. The National Marine Fisheries Service must enact the council’s recommendations before the season opens. “I suppose that a crumb is better than complete starvation,” said Mr. Vogler, whose campground and R.V. park is a destination for many recreational fishermen. Meanwhile, the cancelation of the commercial season came as a great—though unsurprising—disappointment to Jeremy Dierks, a Bolinas fisherman who once earned a third of his income from salmon. “I don’t know how they expect fishermen to survive,” Mr. Dierks said. “I don’t know what they expect us to do.”