West Coast fisheries ‘incredibly challenged’: McGuire forum addresses Dungeness, salmon impacts

West Coast fisheries ‘incredibly challenged’: McGuire forum addresses Dungeness, salmon impacts

Last week, the California State Senate’s Joint Committee on Fisheries and Aquaculture hosted its 50th annual Zeke Grader Fisheries Forum. Scientists and representatives from various state agencies, tribal government, industry and environmental groups met to discuss challenges facing kelp forests off our shores, the future of a later and later Dungeness crab season and a salmon fishery now in its third consecutive year of commercial fishing closu…