WDFW's new director Kelly Susewind fielded more than three dozen questions about salmon, hatcheries, sea lions, orcas, wolves, increasing fishing and hunting opportunities, and more during an hour-and-a-half-long webinar last night....
A federal fisheries biologist is sharing his guarded assessment of 2018's annual spring survey of young salmon off the Northwest Coast, one that offers a glimmer of hope for future Columbia River runs but also comes as the Pacific continues to...
Washington's Southern Resident Killer Whale Task Force has transmitted its recommendations for how to help out the state's struggling orcas to Governor Inslee, and members of the sportfishing community are reacting to the final package....
More details are coming out about last week's large-scale joint state-tribal survey on Lake Roosevelt, one that alarmingly turned up a 6-pound pike just 10 miles from Grand Coulee Dam and a 27.5-pound northern in the upper Spokane Arm, but may...
From an ADA-accessible blind at Ridgefield National Wildlife Refuge, Sal Trujillo watched as the first rays of sun peeked above the surrounding hills. Flocks of mallards, pintails and tundra swans soon filled the sky....
Significantly increasing Chinook abundance to help out starving orcas is among the recommendations Washington's Southern Resident Killer Whale Task Force voted to forward to Governor Jay Inslee yesterday....
More grim news on Lake Washington sockeye. This year’s second lowest count at the Ballard Locks was followed by an “all-time low” spawning run of the red salmon up the Cedar River. “Now just about everything that can go wrong is...