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NE WA Whitetail Hunters Asked To Help WDFW Survey For CWD This Fall
Whitetail hunters will see more game check stations in Northeast Washington this rifle season as WDFW and volunteers from a local sportsmen’s club team up on a new program to test for chronic wasting disease, a deadly deer family malady.
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Snohomish System Hatchery Coho To Be Extended Another Week
State managers will extend hatchery coho season on the Snohomish and Skykomish Rivers another week, taking the fishery into early October.
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Washington 2021 Deer, Elk Hunting Prospects
With the official arrival of fall, it’s time to take a look at Washington’s 2021 gun deer and elk prospects.
Northwest Sportsman Mag Outdoor Spotlight
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Roseburg DA Draws ‘Hard Lines’ Against Poachers In Her County
Allison Eichmann fights crime. All kinds. From homicides to home invasions. And her passion is fighting crimes against wildlife. That passion has earned Eichmann, Senior Deputy District Attorney in Douglas County, the OSP Fish and Wildlife Division’s Prosecutor of the Year award for 2020.
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WDFW Commissioners Discuss New Draft Conservation Policy
The Washington Fish and Wildlife Commission has “a very tricky editing exercise” ahead as members begin revising a new draft conservation policy that was rolled out publicly for the first time last week.
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SW WA, Lower Columbia Fishing Report (9-22-21)
Sec 4 (Vancouver) – 21 bank anglers kept one Chinook. 235 boats/559 rods kept 247 Chinook, 41 Chinook jacks, 48 coho, eight coho jacks and released 33 Chinook, six Chinook jack, 68 coho and one steelhead.
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Washington 2021 Deer, Elk Hunting Prospects
With the official arrival of fall, it’s time to take a look at Washington’s 2021 gun deer and elk prospects.
- Young Yakima Elk Confirmed To Have Hoof Disease; First Known Case In Herd
The Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife (WDFW) announced today that test results from samples taken from a juvenile elk in the Yakima herd confirmed the presence of elk hoof disease, known scientifically as treponeme-associated hoof disease (TAHD). - Outdoor PR Firm Offers Small Fishing, Hunting Biz Free Marketing, Press Release Advice
Blue Heron Communications announces a special program to assist outdoor marketing communicators to get through the challenges and business impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic.
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Hanford Reach Fishing Report (9-20-21)
Adult fall chinook counts at McNary declined slightly this past week, ~3,000 – 6,000 per day. From August 9 to September 19, 111,497 adult fall chinook have passed McNary; roughly 3% above the 2020 return (108,389).
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Salmon Rule Changes: Sol Duc, Quilly, Whatcom, Snohomish, Skykomish
In-season update model indicates additional allowable encounters of non-target species (wild coho and Chinook) during pink opening.
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Lincoln County Courts Need To Make Example Of Yaquina Bay Crab Poacher
Yesterday’s news that a poacher tried to make off with 135 Yaquina Bay Dungeness – including 95 illegal-to-keep females, as well as a number of too-short males – infuriated me and many others.
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Salem Man Busted With 11-plus Times The Dungeness Limit; Had 95 Females
During the conversation, Langiemo was acting suspiciously. When asked, Langiemo told the Officer he could check the ice chest. Langiemo opened the cooler and quickly shut the lid. The Officer could see the cooler was full of crab, some of which appeared to be undersized Dungeness crab.
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WSU Researchers Say They’ve Found One Way Elk Can Catch Hoof Disease
Researchers at Washington State University believe they’ve found at least one way that elk are catching the crippling hoof disease now found in all but two of the state’s herds.
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Fishery Restrictions Adopted For Years Of Low Chinook Abundance
When there are fewer than 966,000 Chinook swimming off the Washington and northern Oregon Coasts, fishery restrictions will be triggered to make more of the key salmon stock available for southern resident killer whales.
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Lower Icicle, Columbia From PRD To Wells Opening For Coho
Returns of upper Columbia River-bound coho salmon are sufficient to meet conservation objectives and to provide for sport angler harvest.
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Hatchery Coho Reopening On More Of Lower Columbia; 4 More Keeper Sturgeon Days Added
Effective Sept. 17, the Columbia River will reopen to hatchery coho retention from the Tongue Point/Rocky Point line upstream to the Warrior Rock/Bachelor Island line, fishery managers from Oregon and Washington decided today.
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USFWS To Review Status Of Delisted Western Wolves
Federal wildlife managers announced today they will begin a “comprehensive status review of the gray wolf” in Washington, Oregon and elsewhere in the West following their initial analysis of a pair of petitions that asked for the predators to be listed under the Endangered Species Act.
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SW WA, Lower Columbia Fishing Report (9-15-21)
Sec 1 (Bonneville) – 27 bank anglers kept two Chinook, one Chinook jack and released one Chinook. 38 boats/89 rods kept 52 Chinook, 12 Chinook jacks, six coho and released two Chinook jacks.
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DNR’s Eastside Lands Reopen To Hunting, Fishing, Public Access
“We are excited to reopen state lands for hunters and other recreationists,” said Laurie Benson, DNR’s acting Conservation, Recreation, and Transactions division manager. “We ask that everyone who goes out to enjoy these lands continues to be safe and responsible.”
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Non-selective Coho Fishing On Oregon’s Central Coast Switching To 7 Days/Week
An impact neutral rollover of the 51,724 coho remaining from the mark selective summer season was made to the non-mark selective September season from Cape Falcon to Humbug Mt. This resulted in a net increase of 6,230 coho in the non-selective coho quota and a revised quota of 20,230 coho.