2019 CA Recreational Ocean Salmon Regulations

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OR/CA Border to Horse Mountain (KMZ)

May 25 – September 2

  • Open seven days per week
  • Minimum size limit: 20 inches total length
  • Klamath Control Zone* (KCZ) closed in August
  • Additional closures around mouth of Klamath, Smith & Eel rivers

Horse Mountain to Point Arena (Shelter Cove and Fort Bragg)

April 13 – 30 and May 18 – Oct 31

  • Open seven days per week
  • Minimum size limit: 20 inches total length

Point Arena to Pigeon Point (San Francisco)

April 13 – 30 and May 18 – Oct 31

  • Open seven days per week
  • Minimum size limit: 24 inches total length through April 30
  • 20 inches thereafter

Pigeon Point to U.S./Mexico Border (Monterey and South)

April 6 – August 28

  • Open seven days per week
  • Minimum size limit: 24 inches total length

General Sport Regulations 

  • Daily bag limit: 2 salmon of any species except Coho.
  • Possession limit: No more than two daily bag limits may be possessed when on land. On a vessel in ocean waters, no person shall possess or bring ashore more than one daily bag limit.
  • 2018 Sport Ocean Salmon Season Flyer (PDF)

*Klamath Control Zone: The ocean area at the Klamath River mouth bounded on the north by 41°38’48” N. lat. (approximately 6 nautical miles north of the Klamath River mouth); on the west, by 124°23’00” W. long. (approximately 12 nautical miles off shore); and on the south, by 41°26’48” N. lat. (approximately 6 nautical miles south of the Klamath River mouth).