This is going to be a horrible year. It's not a total closure, but it's the closest thing to it.

Year in, year out, salmon is the one that they depend upon. It's their anchor fishery.

Some are just going to tie up their boats and try to find something else.

This is why it's so important to us to try to get the Klamath restored. We're talking about most of Oregon and California being shut down by this.

We've seen some troubling signs. Like almost every fish and shellfish that uses the bay, Pacific herring depend on a clean estuary with plenty of freshwater inflow to create productive brackish conditions. But as we ship more and more water south from the delta, we're endangering the herring and most other commercial species.

The wet winter does give us time to sit down with them and see how we can meet those requirements.