This year’s salmon season was always bound to be short due to a small stock, and the Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife confirmed that fate for Admiralty Inlet anglers on Tuesday in a news release.

Salmon fishing closed yesterday in Marine Area 9, excluding the Edmonds Public Fishing Pier. All salmon fishing in the area is closed until Aug. 15, but chinook fishing is closed for the season, a Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife news release stated.

The department estimated that fisherman had caught 2,898 fish of the chinook quota of 3,056 fish for Marine Area 9 as of Aug. 2. It was expected that the remaining quota would be caught by the time Marine Area 9 closed yesterday.

Anglers can still fish for chinook in other Puget Sound marine areas. Marine Area 9 is scheduled to reopen in November for chinook.