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Saturday is opening day for the recreational California salmon season off the coast. Declines in recent years have forced the cancellation of any salmon fishing since 2007.

The short sport season starts Saturday and is currently scheduled to last through the month of April.

For sport fishermen, it’s a chance to get back on the water after the conservation-driven closure. For commercial fisherman, whose season has yet to be scheduled, it’s hope that they, too, might be allowed to return to sea soon, should the recreational catch prove plentiful.

Last year, regulators counted 9,000 “jacks,” or a juvenile salmon, on the Sacramento run, up from 4,000 in 2008 and 2,000 in 2007.

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