With a major upgrade to the forecast, state managers will open hatchery Chinook retention on 300-plus miles of the Lower Columbia for five days starting on the Fourth of July....
THE FOLLOWING IS A PRESS RELEASE FROM THE IDAHO DEPARTMENT OF FISH AND GAME For the first time since the early 1990’s, Fish and Game has collars on white-tailed deer in game management unit 1 in northern Idaho. Biologists use GPS...
The project permanently protects and opens public access to 5,110 acres between Mount St. Helens and Swift Reservoir in the Lewis River Basin, and another 542 acres near Yale and Merwin Reservoirs for a total of 5,652 acres of habitat for...
Pointing to the need for flexibility, the Washington Fish and Wildlife Commission this morning unanimously denied a petition to require nonlethal tactics be used to reduce wolf-livestock conflicts....
With Washington’s economy hard-hit by the COVID-19 pandemic, the Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife (WDFW) is planning agency-wide furloughs beginning next week....
Hate on the lower Duwamish-Green River all you want – it's a Superfund site, it's an Unwild and Unscenic River™, its salmon quit biting in approximately 1914 AD – but it does provide a great entry point for Seattle's diverse angling...
Sec 9 (Cathlamet) – 95 bank anglers kept 25 sockeye, five steelhead and released five Chinook and six steelhead. 10 boats/33 rods kept 24 sockeye, 9 steelhead and released one Chinook and two steelhead. ...
Due to better than expected sockeye fishing, sockeye and hatchery steelhead angling and retention in the mainstem Columbia River will close effective 12:01 a.m. Thursday, June 25...
Pre-season concerns for both A-index and B-index groups of fish (wild and hatchery origin) have led WDFW to close this fishery until further notice....
Two additional openings have been added to Oregon’s Central Coast Subarea, increasing anglers’ opportunity to harvest the quota for the spring all-depth halibut fishery. July 16-18 and July 30-August 1 were added, making a total of eight openings for this popular...
The sockeye migration is on the rise, with 11,106 sockeye over Bonneville on June 21 and 61,500 sockeye to date. McNary passage hit 4,736 on June 21 so fishing should continue to improve....
Friday and Saturday saw all-time record shad counts at Bonneville as 570,329 and then 588,969 went past the counting window, according to data posted on Fish Passage Center and Columbia Basin Research....
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