WDFW is looking for comment on a range of recreational ocean salmon quotas drummed up by the Pacific Fishery Management Council for Washington Coast ports....
WDFW scored $2.7 million to acquire a key boat ramp in the Strait of Juan de Fuca, as well as just under $2 million to ensure agency hatchery production complies with federal ESA requirements and $222,000 for a new avian salmon...
WDFW reports that Washington State University's animal disease lab “found the animal to be in good health and body condition with no evidence of significant diseases or abnormalities that would affect its behavior. The animal tested negative for rabies.” ...
Petitions to create new Eastside and Westside deer tags and do away with the perch limit on Chelan County's Fish Lake, land acquisitions, committee meetings, the draft Conservation Policy, cougar management and more are on the Washington Fish and Wildife Commission's...
The reward for information on an Eastern Oregon bighorn shot for its head alone last fall has reached $4,500 after the Oregon Wild Sheep Foundation added to the fund in hopes of bringing the poacher(s) to justice....
Oregon steelhead managers issued a reminder to Santiam system anglers that since 2021, fishing has been restricted to artificial lures and flies from November 1 through April 21 to protect ESA-listed wild winter-runs....
Pugetropolis salmon anglers may want to become more familiar with a certain fisheries management term over the coming weeks of North of Falcon: "lower bound threshold."...
A teenage angler caught a northern pike at a pond on the west side of San Juan Island, and WDFW crews will gillnet the waters starting as early as next week to eradicate any others illegally introduced there....
WDFW reports that in-season monitoring shows this year's Cowlitz smelt run is big enough to support another opener, but unlike mid-February's Thursday morning dip, the one coming up Tuesday, March 5, will occur in the afternoon to try and "increase harvest...
WDFW rolled out a host of spring Chinook rule changes this afternoon affecting Southwest Washington tributaries including the Cowlitz, Kalama, Wind, Drano and Klickitat....
A new paper on Northeast Washington elk, wolves and cougars will give hunters and local residents – themselves active participants in this dynamic interplay – some things to chew on....
A new Columbia River hatchery coho forecasting model, new tule Chinook harvest matrix and more 2024 West Coast salmon predictions are being rolled out this week for public perusal....
It took awhile, but a Lower Columbia sturgeon poacher was sentenced to jail, fined and had his fishing license suspended for three years for attempting to retain an oversize fish, among other violations....
The Biden Administration, states of Oregon and Washington and Nez Perce, Yakama, Warm Springs and Umatilla Tribes signed the Columbia Basin Commitments at a White House ceremony, putting into effect a court stay to work on Snake River salmon and steelhead...