Fishing

The California Department of Fish and Game reversed itself and closed all sections of the Upper Sacramento River and its tributaries above Lake Shasta to fishing.

Thirty-six miles of the main channel of the river have been closed since a toxic chemical spill July 14, but the DFG recently had permitted catch-and-release fishing in other sections not directly downstream from the spill. Fishermen’s conservation groups protested that some of the few wild trout remaining in the drainage still would die and the regulation would be difficult to enforce unless all fishing was banned.