The Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife (WDFW) is asking for feedback from the public on an early draft of a policy to guide management of non-native game fish across the state....
As public comment on the Skykomish River summer steelhead replacement program wraps up today, there have been recent developments in court and with a second federal oversight agency....
Within the last 2 months, fish and game replaced two out of three damaged portable toilets; one toilet was burned along the Clearwater at McGill hole near Orofino, another toilet was pushed in to the S. Fork of the Clearwater River...
Cowlitz dippers hoisted some 45.4 tons of smelt out of the lower river on Tuesday's five-hour opener, an estimated 90,750 pounds worth that equates to roughly 925,650 individual fish....
Matt Hunter, ODFW’s Shellfish Project Leader explained the problem began when a late September “stall” in ocean current and winds caused an offshore HAB. This stall resulted from the coastal current remaining southward instead of the fall transition northward and weak...
"Increasing the abundance of Chinook salmon stocks that inhabit the whales’ winter range may be an effective conservation strategy for this population." ...
Wildlife agencies are urging pet and aquarium stores to remove “Betta Buddy Marimo Ball,” a moss plant for aquariums, after invasive zebra mussels were discovered inside the product....
This follows measures fishery managers implemented earlier this winter to modify the coastal steelhead season, restricting fishing from a boat and using bait, to help more wild steelhead return to the spawning grounds. In coordination with tribal co-managers, the Quillayute and...
Lower Columbia mainstem from Bonneville to Astoria – 31 salmonid boats and 36 Washington bank rods were tallied during Saturday’s (2/27) effort count. ...
Smelt dippers reported fast netting during today's opener on the lower Cowlitz River, quickly catching their limits of 10 pounds of the oily little fish also known as eulachon....
A second mule deer has died and at least three more were injured after being struck with blow gun darts within the Burns city limits over the last four months. The Oregon Hunters Association is offering $1,000 in reward money for...
In the fictional world of trout wrestling, one of the most uneven matchups would pit brook trout (Salvelinus fontinalis) against bull trout (Salvelinus confluentus). When squaring off in their aquatic ‘ring,’ the invasive and scrappy ‘brookies’ are bullies, outcompeting the native...