A national sportsmen's foundation says it has won a state court case challenging the appointment of a controversial member of the Washington Fish and Wildlife Commission....
ODFW announces coastal fall Chinook seasons for rivers from the Necanicum to the Winchuck and has gone with Alternative 2, "allowing for additional harvest in some rivers." ...
The illegal introduction of northern pike in a Northeast Washington reservoir sped up the decline of native fish species there, with their biomass dropping by more than half, and it also affected some popular nonnative species, while others only grew stronger....
Anglers are being asked to release and report any sea-run cutthroat with sutured bellies they catch in Willapa Bay tributaries from now through next spring....
Fishing for adult hatchery summer Chinook will be shut down on the Columbia from the Astoria-Megler Bridge upstream to Priest Rapids Dam effective Saturday, July 1....
Thanks to upcoming minus tides, Oregon razor clam diggers will have a good chance to get after the prized shellfish on Clatsop County beaches before mid-July's conservation closure....
Last week, the Washington Fish and Wildlife Commission spent two days at the firehose that is public comment taking feedback from sportsmen, conservation groups and others on its draft Conservation Policy, but what did the actual members of the citizen panel...
Late June 2023 sockeye and summer Chinook fishing on the Mid-Columbia near Tri-Cities is rated as "relatively slow due to the lower flows" of the big river and a lower than expected rate of king returns so far....
WDFW announces that the Cascade River will open daily for hatchery spring Chinook fishing starting immediately; at least 988 of the fin-clipped salmon have returned to the hatchery there as of June 20....
Idaho has joined Wyoming in denying the donation request for a voter-mandated reintroduction effort that is supposed to start by the end of this year, putting more pressure on the remaining donor states for the 10 to 15 wolves a year...
Sportsmen, state residents, local and national conservation organizations, the Governor's Office and preservationists all had their say on the Washington Fish and Wildlife Commission's draft Conservation Policy at meetings in Seattle that continue this morning....
Washington wildlife overseers don't appear too enthusiastic at the moment about donating wolves to Colorado for a voter-mandated wolf reintroduction effort in that state, but did express interest in at least hearing more about it....
Not only did the US Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals halt scrapping this summer's Alaska Chinook commercial troll fishery, which would have been a signature win for Wild Fish Conservancy, but a three-judge panel also denied yet another WFC bid to...