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US West Coast salmon fishermen recorded lackluster 2020 seasons
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Last year went down as one of the most lackluster seasons in history for salmon fishermen on the U.S. West Coast.
Regional fishermen landed 6.33 million pounds of kings, silvers, and chums in 2020, down by almost half of the 11.05 million pounds the three West Coast states landed in 2019, according to data from PacFIN, and a fraction of the 56.16 million pounds in the record-setting year of 2013.
In California, trollers harvested 1.9 million pounds for revenues of USD 13.7 million (EUR 11.3 million).
A predicating theory behind the meager harvest last year was that ocean waters have cooled, making salmon forage fish plentiful – so the spatial distribution of forage fish was so far and wide that it was hard for fisherman to find concentrations of salmon feeding on them. In other years, when there are fewer forage fish, it is easier to find them and find the salmon on the edges.