Fewer, smaller: California's 2015 Chinook salmon season was an odd one, yielding erratic results and failing to meet harvest projections.The California Department of Fish and Wildlife's Ocean Salmon Project tabulates landing receipts, and a rough estimate of the state's total commercial Chinook landings in 2015 is about 112,000 fish.That compares unfavorably to last year's total of 166,500 fish and doesn't tell the whole story of how poor the season was.Jennifer Simon, an environmental scientist with the Ocean Salmon Project, said average size of landed fish was 10.5 pounds, which is "quite a bit smaller than we'd expect."
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