Salmon Season??

Maybe I missed the announcement as I haven't been online much.  Is it confirmed that the salmon season will be closed this year?  A patient of mine told me today that he just heard that is the case but I couldn't find anything to confirm this. Only a few gloomy forecasts:

http://www.onearth.org/node/1844

http://www.contracostatimes.com/environment/ci_14385827

That's so sad if this is the reality!

I don't think it is confirmed yet but they had lower returns last year compared to previous years they closed the season.

http://www.ens-newswire.com/ens/jan2008/2008-01-29-092.asp

http://www.redding.com/news/2008/oct/23/only-12k-salmon-return/

So I think everyone is assuming the worse.

Ya I don't think it's been officially decided, but is MOST LIKELY.  In all honesty we may not ever fish Central Valley Salmon in the ocean again.

DFG has a pre-season meeting tomorrow in Santa Rosa starting at noon:

http://www.nrm.dfg.ca.gov/FileHandler.ashx?DocumentID=17928

I don't think the feds "officially" decide until next month -NtG