Meeting September 15 via conference call, the Commission approved a Coho season for the Clearwater River. Fishing for Coho on the mainstem Clearwater River downstream from Memorial Bridge begins immediately with fishing allowed 7 days a week....
Shellfish managers have scheduled 39 razor clam digs on ocean beaches for dates through December. State shellfish managers have also approved the first four days of razor clam digging starting Sept. 16 after marine toxin tests showed the clams are safe...
Fishing and catching picked up this past week for boat and bank anglers. Harvest for the week was the highest on record since the record return in 2015. ...
This morning the Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife's Public Affairs division sent out a press release on the Fish and Wildlife Commission's big vote Friday changing Columbia River salmon management policies. ...
In a close vote this afternoon, the Washington Fish and Wildlife Commission voted to make major changes to Columbia salmon reforms, changing sport-commercial allocations and surely giving WDFW budget issues next year and further challenging concurrency with Oregon....
Pointing to hunter ethics and image and longheld wildlife conservation beliefs, Washington Fish and Wildlife Commissioners voted to ban hunting contests targeting coyotes and other animals that don't have bag limits....
Washington DNR has extended its lands closures east of the Cascades through Thursday, Sept. 17, while WDFW is asking deer, elk and other hunters to “cold camp” at state wildlife areas not hit by wildfires but still under high to extreme...
Fishery managers today set three additional days of Chinook retention opportunity on the mainstem Columbia River from Buoy 10 to the Hwy 395 Bridge near Pasco, WA, as a result of a fall Chinook return that appears likely to meet or...
Lower Columbia mainstem Warrior Rock line upstream to Bonneville Dam – 1,181 salmonid boats and 154 Washington bank rods were tallied during Saturday’s (9/5) flight count. ...
A gripping video details how ODFW crews attempted to save salmon, steelhead and trout at a McKenzie River hatchery earlier this week after its water source was drained and a massive fire burned towards it....
Wildfires burned several WDFW wildlife areas and a water access site in Eastern Washington yesterday, and DNR says it is closing all of its recreation lands east of the Cascades for at least the next few days as high fire danger...
Bowing to out-of-state advocates, Gov. Jay Inslee again stepped into wolf management in Washington, telling the Fish and Wildlife Commission to begin making new rules and policies around wolf-livestock conflicts ahead of the 2021 grazing season....
Fishing derbies across the Northwest have had a rough year, with pandemic precautions continuing to scrap events, including an important one out of Reedsport on the lower Umpqua that would have been held this Labor Day Weekend....
Gray wolves in the western two-thirds of Washington and Oregon, as well as the rest of the country, could finally be federally delisted by the end of 2020, according to reports earlier this week....