The Pacific sardine fishery is likely to be closed to direct fishing next season, because the population of small fish has declined below federally mandated limits. The Pacific Fishery Management ...

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Federal fishery regulators on Wednesday approved an early closure of the commercial sardine season off Oregon, Washington and California -- shutting down the harvest of the highly sought fish for at ...

The article on the shutdown of commercial sardine fishing on the West Coast was intriguing to me [“Feds likely to shut down sardine fishing on West Coast,” Local News, April 4]. I believe it is the ...

West Coast fisheries managers likely will shut down sardine fishing this year as numbers decline, echoing a previous collapse that decimated a thriving industry and increasing worries that other ...

West Coast fisheries managers will likely shut down sardine fishing this year as numbers decline, echoing a previous collapse that decimated a thriving industry and increasing worries that other ...

Federal regulators close commercial sardine fishing in an effort to rebuild the depleted populations of the fish. Sardine shortages are blamed for... Life has suddenly gotten easier for the sardine.

Recently the Pacific Fishery Management Council voted to change the sardine harvest control rule, increasing the upper limit of the sardine harvest fraction from 15 percent to 20 percent. The decision ...

A sardine fishery on the Pacific is an iconic endeavor, like corn farming in Iowa, shrimping in Louisiana or cod fishing in New England. But like any of those, it has had severe ups and downs in the ...

Dusk always seems to bring magic at Sardine Lake. Eager trout often rise for an evening snack. An osprey then arrives, circles and picks one out for his own dinner. Deer appear along the lake's shore.

CONTRIBUTED PHOTO Jim Waters of Ventura caught a 35-pound yellowtail aboard the Island Spirit. CONTRIBUTED PHOTO Ken Cozzens of Ventura caught a 12-pound lingcod aboard the Island Spirit. Propelled by ...

I’m floating in one of the prettiest lakes I’ve ever seen. The water is so still and undisturbed it is otherworldly. I close my eyes, stretch my body and let the air in my lungs suspend me on the ...