WDFW Commission Members To Talk Coastal Steelhead Issues Friday
As Washington’s steelheading world continues to roil over WDFW’s decision this week to ban angling from floating devices and other conservation-based restrictions on coastal systems this winter, several of the agency’s overseers will hold an unexpected meeting on the issue tomorrow afternoon.
WDFW ‘Not Prepared To Disclaim State Ownership’ Of Lower Skokomish R., Like Tribe Wants
WDFW is “not prepared to disclaim ownership” of the lower end of a Hood Canal river as demanded by tribal officials who in an extraordinary step linked the state agency doing so to their agreeing to next year’s salmon seasons.
Washington South Coast Closing To Crabbing; Willapa, Columbia Still Open As Test Results Pend
Effective immediately, the recreational Dungeness crab fisheries on the Washington coast south of the Queets River will close due to elevated marine toxin levels, state shellfish managers announced today.