Tillamook angler Rebecca Jones' 4.8-pound monkeyface prickleback, caught near Garibaldi on April 1, could be a new world record, topping one caught in Yaquina Bay in 2008, ODFW reports....
Lower Columbia spring Chinook managers extended the sport fishery below Bonneville Dam four more days through Tuesday, April 9, as ODFW and WDFW staffers had recommended yesterday, and will be watching whether more time might be added....
ODFW reports that a hatchery truck carrying 102,000 spring Chinook smolts meant to be released into the Imnaha River crashed on the way instead, killing 25,529, but 77,000 survived and made it into Lookingglass Creek and are expected to boost adult...
Federal salmon overseers say Oregon Coast Chinook face a low risk of extinction, according to a recently concluded deep dive into the health of runs stretching from the Necanicum in the north to the Elk and Sixes in the south....
Another clear warning about walleye expansion up the Snake has been issued by Idaho salmon and steelhead managers, who also unveiled a new focus on addressing nonnative species in that river and the Columbia....
Oregon sportfishing organizations are raising the alarm about "shocking" budget cuts to Willamette Valley salmon and steelhead hatchery programs by the Army Corps of Engineers, including a complete defunding of summer-run production....
State, tribal and federal managers will hold a mid-April meeting on their plan to place bull trout, a native char, in Sullivan Lake in far northern Pend Oreille County. They say it wouldn't affect activities on the lake, but may lead...
WDFW announces that blackmouth fishing off Seattle, Bremerton, Shoreline and elsewhere will close as Marine Area 10 encounter limits have been reached. Year-round piers remain open, as does Area 11 to the south....
Federal agencies are one step closer to reintroducing grizzly bears into Washington's North Cascades via a nonessential population, or 10(j), designation that would give managers more latitude in dealing with Ursus arctos horribilis conflicts....