Last week, the California State Senate’s Joint Committee on Fisheries and Aquaculture hosted its 50th annual Zeke Grader Fisheries Forum. “I think that we can all agree, fisheries on the West Coast, salmon and Dungeness crab both, … have been incredibly challenged over the past several years, and it seems for every step forward that we take, two steps are taken back,” McGuire said. We had the first recreational salmon fishing season in California in three years. “… I mean no disrespect to our commercial sector; (salmon season closure) has been harder on our tribal communities,” Bonham said. He also noted that oceanic warming has been the cause of late starts to the season, not the regulatory environment.