ODFW will talk about the ongoing legislatively mandated hatchery assessment process, alternatives evaluated by contractors and stakeholders and more at an all-day meeting November 13 in Salem and livestreamed online....
Late October and early November 2024 fall Chinook, coho and steelhead catch stats for the Lower Columbia and select Southwest Washington tributaries....
The amount of hatchery steelhead genes in wild Snoqualmie winter-runs greatly exceeded allowable limits during a four-year monitoring period, and while the sample size was also relatively small, it led directly to this week's news that the Tokul Creek program would...
Divers are cleaning the Lower Columbia and its tributaries of lost fishing gear, dozens of 360 setups at a time. Who are they, why are they doing it and what the heck do they do with all the still-usable gear?!?...
Oregon fish and wildlife troopers are looking for leads in the case of a suspected poacher who has shot "numerous" does this month in the Trask Wildlife Management Unit of Yamhill County....
It's the end of Tokul Creek Hatchery early winter-run production and crossed fingers that federal overseers will eventually approve a new state-tribal broodstock program for the future of consumptive steelheading opportunities on the Snoqualmie River....
The confirmation of CWD in two deer harvested in Wyoming and brought back to Oregon earlier this month has ODFW reminding hunters about carcass importation rules meant to stop the spread of the always-fatal deer family disease....
The Washington Fish and Wildlife Commission will get a good look at WDFW's science and potential hunting frameworks for future black bear and cougar seasons when it convenes Friday in Ellensburg....
A Snohomish County man drove his side-by-side through a wild Chinook redd on a stretch of the Skykomish River that has been closed to all fishing this season due to critically low numbers of the salmon species....
Washington wildlife biologists took samples from just over 100 deer for chronic wasting disease testing at 10 check stations during the second weekend of modern firearms season in Region 1, a bit more than were collected at both game checks and...
