Salmon Release Planned for Bodega Bay – February 9, 2017

The salmon fishery off the Sonoma Coast will be getting an extra boost from imported hatchery fish—but not right away.

Bodega Bay’s beleaguered salmon fishery will get a boost from the release of thousands of smolts there this spring. But the fishermen will have to wait another two years for the fish to grow, mature and return before they can be caught.

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