Governor Jay Inslee is acknowledging the monumental importance of hunting and fishing to conservation in Washington in a proclamation he signed ahead of tomorrow's national day of recognition for the beloved ways of life....
WDFW will hold an online town hall the evening of October 25 to begin talking to anglers and the public about the shape of the 2023-24 coastal winter steelhead season for streams from Forks to Naselle. ...
CWD was detected in northern Idaho in 2021, just 30 miles from the Oregon border. It is always fatal to deer and elk and there is no cure. The more animals that are tested, the more certain ODFW can be that...
A recently approved habitat conservation plan for private timberlands in the Clackamas and Molalla River basins east of Portland is being called a first of its kind for Oregon and is expected to result in improved Chinook, coho and steelhead habitat....
Federal governments on both sides of the North Cascades appear to be moving forward more seriously now with plans to reintroduce grizzly bears in the rugged border-straddling range....
An agreement between the federal government and Northeast Washington tribes will "fund efforts to test the feasibility of, and ultimately to reintroduce salmon in blocked habitats" of the Upper Columbia River....
ODFW reports having to release over 400,000 fall Chinook and 23,000 winter steelhead being reared at the Elk River Hatchery earlier than planned after level three evacuations caused by a wildfire burning in the Coast Range....
Fall salmon fishing on the Lower Columbia has been reopened from Puget Island to Warrior Rock and extended from Warrior Rock to Bonneville Dam effective September 22, state managers decided this afternoon....
Latest catch stats for the Hanford Reach of the Mid-Columbia show increasing fall Chinook catches and word that the daily limit for upriver brights may increase to two if the good early dam counts continue to track....
The Oregon Fish and Wildlife Commission took action today to "make it unlawful to organize, sponsor, conduct, or participate in a contest that has the objective of killing unprotected mammals native" to the state....
Oregon is putting out the word that those who turn in poachers stand to earn twice the reward money and here are three recent cases they need info on....
Even as Washington razor clam managers have their eye on somewhat elevated marine toxin levels, they're announcing the fall season could begin September 29 and tentatively set 36 days of digging through the end of the year....
With catches during the September nonselective coho season nearing the quota even after an impact-neutral rollover from the summer hatchery fishery, the Oregon Coast between Cape Falcon and Humbug Mountain will close for coho retention as of September 18, said state...
Columbia fishery managers this afternoon extended recreational salmon season from Warrior Rock to Bonneville Dam through September 21 and OKed a three-day reopener from Puget Island up to the rock starting September 15. That was the easy part; the tough part...
A fishing derby on the Coquille River targeting smallmouth has been extended through October 1, and it and other population reduction efforts appear to having an effect on the smolt-eating bass....