Calif., Ore. fishing declared a disaster (AP)

GRANTS PASS, Ore. - Commerce Secretary Carlos Gutierrez " /> SEARCH News | News Photos | Images | Web " /> Carlos Gutierrez on Thursday declared commercial salmon fishing a failure off Oregon and California this year, enabling the states to seek federal aid. The harvest was cut back sharply by a regional council to help raise numbers of chinook salmon in the Klamath River. Gutierrez' formal declaration under federal fisheries law is the first since 1992 to come before the end of the fishing season ...