ODFW staff are preparing to brief the Commission at their June 18 meeting and seek input on how to best proceed with potential changes to current general season archery elk hunts....
A Spokane-based hunting and conservation organization is pushing back on national groups' call to relist wolves in the Northern Rockies, including the eastern third of Washington, given recent moves in Montana's and Idaho's statehouses....
Multiple people accessed the trap. One person, identified through surveillance footage, entered the trap to net fish, then shot one camera and stole another. Troopers caught up with ......
Beginning June 1, retention of copper, quillback, and China rockfish when fishing from a boat is prohibited during the recreational sport bottomfishing season. This temporary restriction is needed to remain under Oregon’s recreational harvest quota for nearshore rockfish....
As shad anglers ready their darts and Dick Nites and keep a close eye on the daily count at Bonneville Dam, the East Coast fish are turning up in another and rather unexpected location this spring. Lake Washington....
Sec 1 (Bonneville) – 304 bank anglers kept 26 Chinook, six jacks and released seven Chinook and one steelhead. 12 boats/28 rods kept six Chinook, one jack and released one Chinook. ...
Managers have seen a higher than predicted return of both wild and hatchery spring Chinook salmon to the Umatilla River basin. Last month, the adult return was not expected to meet the need for broodstock to continue hatchery operations, therefore, harvest...
Reason for action: The 2021 return of upriver spring Chinook salmon was upgraded by the U.S. v. Oregon Technical Advisory Committee to 87,000. This allows for additional harvest within the Snake River based on WDFW Commission Policy C-3630. The U.S. v....
While poor ocean conditions in recent years resulted in low fall Chinook returns coastwide, the Coquille has been particularly hard hit and has not rebounded to the same extent as other systems. ODFW scientists concluded the most likely cause is predation...
Shellfish managers have approved four more days of razor clam digging at Mocrocks Beach only, after marine toxin tests showed the clams are safe to eat. ...
While still quite interested in the land for a unique wildlife area, WDFW is pausing its push to acquire a former Southwest Washington coal mine to allow space for local officials to continue conversations with TransAlta about their 15-square-mile property’s future....
Another member of the Northwest zoo world has joined a state fish and wildlife commission. Dr. Kathayoon Khalil of Portland was confirmed to a four-year term on ODFW's citizen panel following an 18-11 vote in the Oregon senate last week. ...
Anglers will have an opportunity to retain a white sturgeon on the lower Willamette River on June 12th and 19th this year. The scheduled dates are a little earlier than last year which was the first retention season in the lower...
A section of the lower Skagit River is opening immediately for hatchery spring Chinook, WDFW announced in a 24 hours rife with king salmon fishing news across the state....
For the second straight year, Washington Governor Jay Inslee has vetoed a voluntary nontribal commercial gillnet license buyback program proviso in WDFW's operating budget, this time after the legislature placed restrictions on Columbia River netting that he opposed....