Three more Washington Fish and Wildlife Commission members appeared before a state Senate committee today and on Thursday they and another trio will all have a recommendation vote on their appointments to the citizen panel.
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Ahead of Oregon's spring youth turkey hunting weekend early next month, ODFW and partners will hold a pair of clinics for 8- to 17-year-olds on how to pursue these wily birds, and registration is now open for the events at the...
A recent ODFW-WDFW survey of Columbia fall Chinook anglers found 53 percent supported limiting retention at Buoy 10 to hatchery fish as a means to lengthen the popular fishery, while 47 percent preferred a shorter season with wild or clipped kings...
Washington ocean salmon managers are looking for public comment on 2023 Chinook quotas that run from 32,500 to 42,500 fish – more than were available last year – and coho quotas from 142,800 to 168,000 – fewer than available in 2022....
Three Washington Fish and Wildlife Commissioners were told that senators would work to confirm them following a public hearing on their appointments this afternoon, while another trio are due before the Agriculture, Water, Natural Resources & Parks Committee next week....
With California Chinook stocks at "extremely low abundance and ... projected to potentially fall below target spawning escapements," Oregon ocean salmon managers announce that the recreational fishery between Cape Falcon and Humbug scheduled for mid-March to mid-May has been cancelled....
The blackmouth season in Marine Area 10 off Seattle, which was paused last month, will not reopen, WDFW announced this morning, because "test fisheries ... indicate that any opening of the salmon fishery at current mark rates would exceed the unmarked...
Early March 2023 spring Chinook and winter steelhead fishing report for the Lower Columbia and Southwest Washington tributaries, as well as recent trout releases....
A national sportsmen's organization today filed a lawsuit to bar Lorna Smith from the Washington Fish and Wildlife Commission due to an "ongoing violation of state law" related to her concurrent position on the Jefferson County Planning Commission....
WDFW will hold March 22 and 23 meetings about the future of the Lake Roosevelt sturgeon fishery, including a transition to a fall keeper season and a change to the slot size....
There are enough wild steelhead forecasted to return to the Skagit and Sauk this winter to have opened a five-day-a-week season back on February 1, but a month into the fishery window there's still no sign of the federal OK that...
The sexy stuff today was 2023's salmon numbers, some of which – Puget Sound coho and pinks, coastal silvers – look pretty enticing, but Washington fishery managers also used the North of Falcon forecast reveal to update anglers on other fronts...
WDFW outlined this year's forecasts for Western Washington salmon, with bright spots including improved expectations for many Puget Sound and coastal coho and Chinook and nearly 4 million pinks, kicking off the annual season-setting process known as North of Falcon....
Richard Mann, a longtime Washington turkey hunter instrumental in setting up how-to workshops on pursuing the state's gobblers, has been named the National Wild Turkey Federation's Mentor Of the Year for his commitment to hunter recruitment, retention and reactivation, or R3,...