ODFW and a local church are hosting the "most fun-packed family fishing event on the Mid Coast" this Saturday, featuring 1400 rainbows in Eckman Lake and a kid-friendly carnival just across the street outside Waldport....
With plenty of fish available in the quotas, Columbia spring Chinook managers will mull five-day reopeners on the lower river and gorge pools during a teleconference early this afternoon....
Officials have updated the upriver Columbia spring Chinook forecast to a "minimum" of 139,000 of the salmon and while a downgrade of 2023 expectations, they will huddle tomorrow afternoon to discuss mainstem recreational fisheries....
Oregon state wildlife managers say a Lincoln County mother and her son were fined $15,000 and have lost their hunting privileges for three years after illegally shooting and wasting a pair of black bear cubs last October....
ODFW reports that ongoing nearshore monitoring is "unlocking secrets about temperatures and oxygen levels known to impact groundfish and invertebrate activities, create stresses on ecosystems and even alter sport anglers’ catches."...
Highly litigious environmental organizations have a serious flaw in their upcoming pressure campaign to blast the Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife for its allegedly "seriously flawed plan to liberalize the take of Chinook" this season....
Wolves have abandoned – perhaps only temporarily – one of the oldest pack territories in Washington after its lone male left the Teanaway last month, ending one of the most unusual chapters in Evergreen State wolf lore....
After weeks of refusing to crank over given the relatively large forecast, the spring Chinook count at Bonneville fired up the past two days with a combined 10,310 fish, giving hope that this year's upper Columbia run is just woefully tardy...
Early May 2023 spring Chinook and steelhead catch stats for Southwest Washington's Cowlitz, Kalama, Lewis, Wind and Klickitat Rivers and Drano Lake....
Oregon health and shellfish managers are reopening the North Coast from the Columbia south to Tillamook Head – 95 percent of the harvest comes off Clatsop County beaches – after marine biotoxin levels finally drop into the safe zone....
A federal judge in Seattle has adopted a recommendation to deny a bid to derail Northwest hatchery Chinook production increases meant for southern resident killer whales while apparently closing the lucrative Southeast Alaska commercial troll fishery for the salmon....
Five Western Washington tribes have filed paperwork in federal court to intervene in a Wild Fish Conservancy lawsuit targeting state hatchery salmon production in Puget Sound and the Lower Columbia....
ODFW and state health officials are closing recreational crabbing on the Oregon Coast from 8 miles north of Winchester Bay south to Cape Blanco, including bays and estuaries, due to domoic acid levels and effective immediately....