If you caught a salmon in 2016, you can thank GGSA. Others helped, but we almost certainly would not have had an ocean fishing season last year without the extra trucking of hatchery fish GGSA convinced the hatcheries to do in 2014.  

We know it wasn't a great season for many, but at least we fished! Same goes for this coming year, 2017, where again we'll be relying almost exclusively on the extra hatchery fish trucked because of GGSA to provide an ocean season. Remember, these fish were born in the middle of one of the worst droughts we've seen and it was GGSA that recognized it and acted to keep you fishing. 

How much do you spend to fish salmon in a day or how much do you make fishing salmon?  How about in a season?  

Now, at the end of the year you have an opportunity to support your salmon fishing future while reducing some of the income tax you'll have to pay for 2016. You can make a tax-deductible donation to GGSA between now and the end of the week. Compared to what many of you pay to fish salmon, a small donation is the best investment you can make in your own fishing future. That's because GGSA is leading the way to keep salmon in our streams, in the ocean and on the deck of the boat you fish on.

Not a GGSA member? Consider buying a regular membership for $35 here  or go the extra step and buy a Heritage membership for $500. Or just make a donation. Either way, it's a good deal considering you might not have fished last year or this coming year without GGSA. 

GGSA is not only in the trenches daily to stick up for salmon and their threatened freshwater, we're also pushing the envelope on new techniques, like egg injection, to answer the devastation future droughts might bring to California's salmon.

Your support of GGSA shows that you share our deep commitment to the preservation and restoration of Sacramento Valley Salmon - a resource that is at great risk. While we have made unchallengeable progress in our mission of salmon conservation, we cannot do so without your continued support. Help us protect this sustainable, commercial, recreational and cultural resource. Please consider us by renewing your membership, becoming a heritage member, or by making a tax-deductible, year-end donation to our cause. 

Although under gunned, GGSA is fighting back.  You can help us by donating to GGSA - Donate HERE!

The Golden Gate Salmon Association is a coalition of salmon advocates that includes commercial and recreational salmon fisherman, businesses, restaurants, a native tribe, environmentalists, elected officials, families and communities that rely on salmon. 

GGSA’s mission is to restore California salmon for their economic, recreational, commercial, environmental, cultural and health values.

Currently, California’s salmon industry is valued at $1.4 billion in economic activity annually in a regular season and about half that much in economic activity and jobs again in Oregon. The industry employs tens of thousands of people from Santa Barbara to northern Oregon. This is a huge economic bloc made up of commercial fishermen, recreational fishermen (fresh and salt water), fish processors, marinas, coastal communities, equipment manufacturers, the hotel and food industry, tribes, and the salmon fishing industry at large.