In a major announcement this afternoon, Seattle City Light is committing to adding up- and downstream fish passage around its three ladderless dams on the Skagit River as part of federal relicensing....
Washington legislators handed WDFW $23 million for new biodiversity work in the recently passed 2023-25 state operating budget, but they also snuck in an unsettling proviso requiring the agency's governance, mandate and more to be reviewed and possibly reformed, enraging sportsmen's...
The Lower Elwha Klallam Tribe will hold a ceremonial and subsistence salmon fishery on the Elwha River for coho this October, the first easing of the more than decade-long fishing moratorium there, with an expected catch of 400 or less....
A Southwest Washington game warden rescued a hypothermic pair of commercial razor clammers on the Willapa Spits late yesterday after their boat became disabled and one had begun to write a goodbye note to his girlfriend....
Concerns and questions should be growing over the burgeoning American shad population in Lake Washington, where as of mid-April crews had netted a minimum of at least six times as many of the fish as last year....
Washington senators confirmed the appointments of all nine members of the Fish and Wildlife Commission during floor votes earlier today, four by wide margins but five by sharper, largely partisan splits....
"The back of my rig is sagging pretty bad," cackled Buzz Ramsey Thursday evening as he crossed the Hood River bridge. The sag was from the nice-sized chrome-bright hatchery spring Chinook he was toting home in his cooler after an extended...
WDFW and the Washington Fish and Wildlife Commission are being sued over last month's purchase of land on the Deschutes River near Olympia for a new salmon hatchery as well as a 2021 master plan to boost salmon production in support...
Imagine, if you would, Christmas and Halloween and Easter and, oh, what the heck, your birthday all rolled into one. What do you have? Washington’s annual lowland lake opener, this year on April 22. ...
If you like wild Chinook doom and gloom with a dash or two of bright spots to keep hope alive, you'll love what's being billed as a "comprehensive" synthesis of long-term population data for stocks from Vancouver, BC, down to Sacramento...
WDFW provides more details on 2023 summer salmon and steelhead seasons on the Skykomish and Snohomish Rivers and the factors severely constraining them. ...
Just as across the big river in Washington, Oregon's wolf population grew in 2022, tallying a minimum of 178 in 24 packs, 17 breeding pairs and 14 groups, with growth especially notable last year in the state's West Wolf Management Zone....