The once-thriving sardine population — made famous in John Steinbeck’s novel “Cannery Row” — has taken a nosedive along the West Coast, where regulators are considering a ban on reeling in the tiny ...

West Coast fisheries managers will likely shut down sardine fishing this year as numbers decline, echoing a previous collapse that decimated a thriving industry and increasing worries that other ...

West Coast fisheries managers will likely shut down sardine fishing this year as numbers decline, echoing a previous collapse that decimated a thriving industry and increasing worries that other ...

Federal fishery regulators on Wednesday approved an early closure of the commercial sardine season off Oregon, Washington and California -- shutting down the harvest of the highly sought fish for at ...

Federal regulators close commercial sardine fishing in an effort to rebuild the depleted populations of the fish. Sardine shortages are blamed for... Life has suddenly gotten easier for the sardine.

The article on the shutdown of commercial sardine fishing on the West Coast was intriguing to me [“Feds likely to shut down sardine fishing on West Coast,” Local News, April 4]. I believe it is the ...

A sardine fishery on the Pacific is an iconic endeavor, like corn farming in Iowa, shrimping in Louisiana or cod fishing in New England. But like any of those, it has had severe ups and downs in the ...

Monterey >> With the number of sardines along the Pacific coast plummeting, a commercial fishing ban looms on Monterey’s most iconic fish. A draft report released by federal regulators last week shows ...

CONSIDER THE humble sardine: Low in mercury, high in healthful omega-3 fatty acids, and abundant once again in the chilly waters of Monterey Bay, it may be the perfect fish for our times. Sardines are ...