New WDFW Biodiversity Funding Package Comes With Huge Caveat

Washington legislators handed WDFW $23 million for new biodiversity work in the recently passed 2023-25 state operating budget, but they also snuck in an unsettling proviso requiring the agency’s governance, mandate and more to be reviewed and possibly reformed, enraging sportsmen’s groups that had worked in support of the greater package.
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Help Us Celebrate Our 38th Season in Hakai Pass, BC!, This Coast Fishing includes…..
FISHING B.C. — BEYOND THE SALMON

The B.C. coast is renowned for its Salmon fisheries, but the Province’s hidden gems lie in its interior, 20,000 lakes and 466,000 miles of rivers harbor entire ecosystems of fish to catch .
Tribal C&S Fishery To Be Held On Elwha, First Since Dams Out

The Lower Elwha Klallam Tribe will hold a ceremonial and subsistence salmon fishery on the Elwha River for coho this October, the first easing of the more than decade-long fishing moratorium there, with an expected catch of 400 or less.