Oregon's Fish and Wildlife Commission today unanimously approved sending a request to increase fishing and hunting license fees to the Governor's Office for consideration in the 2025-27 budget, albeit with a memo to express concerns about the potential closure of two...
NMFS has granted the Makah Tribe a waiver from Marine Mammal Protection Act take prohibitions for ceremonial and subsistence gray whale hunts, opening the way for the tribe to apply for and receive a permit to hunt up to 25 of...
Oregon Coast fall Chinook and wild coho season proposals are "similar" to last year's. So says ODFW ahead of this Friday's Fish and Wildlife Commission meeting on the topic, when public testimony will also be taken....
The Oregon Fish and Wildlife Commission will mull an ODFW proposal to increase the cost of nearly all fishing and hunting licenses as well as create a new ocean angling endorsement as part of a budget request to state lawmakers that...
A North Bend, Washington, man featured in our October 2023 Dishonor Roll after being charged with 32 wildlife violations was sentenced to 80 hours of community service and fined $8,000....
More recreational shrimp fishing opportunities will occur in four Puget Sound marine areas, in addition to other scheduled openers, WDFW announced today....
Bay clam and razor clam harvest closures have been expanded to the entire Oregon Coast, joining mussels, due to high levels of the marine biotoxin paralytic shellfish poisoning, ODFW and ODA announced this evening....
A numerical transfer of hatchery spring Chinook from the balance available for the Lower Columbia recreational fishery to the Snake is providing for another day to target the salmon below Little Goose Dam....
A bill that removed fishing license exemptions for smelt, crawfish and carp in Washington waters goes into effect this Thursday after it was passed earlier this year by the state legislature with support from WDFW and signed by Governor Jay Inslee....
Move over, Drano Lake fight video, enter Drano Lake dive video. A pair of scuba divers filmed themselves gathering the mother of all yard sales' worth of flashers and other fishing gear at the salmon-rich but snaggy Columbia Gorge backwater....
More time on the water for Lower Columbia hatchery spring Chinook was approved today by state managers, but they could not agree on a pair of proposed nontreaty commercial openers below Bonneville....
Late May 2024 spring Chinook, summer steelhead and shad catch stats for the Lower Columbia and the Cowlitz, Kalama, Lewis, Wind and Klickitat Rivers and Drano Lake....
Lower Columbia managers have added tomorrow, Friday, May 24, to the spring Chinook season extension approved last week, per a notice sent out late this morning....
