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

For most fishermen, salmon is critical for a major portion of their income. This is a killer. This is a fishery that's a century old and this is the first time to my knowledge that it would be totally closed.

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.

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

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.