The San Joaquin River is closed to salmon fishing to protect the depleted population and support recovery. While the San Joaquin River is again seeing spring-run Chinook salmon after the species was extirpated from its waters in the 1950s, it’s just the beginning of population recovery efforts. Nearly 450 were counted this year but biologists hope to see thousands in years to come. In 2014 CDFW started releasing juvenile spring-run Chinook into the San Joaquin River as part of the San Joaquin Ri