WDFW will recap 2023's Puget Sound salmon fisheries and the outlook for 2024's at a late January virtual meeting that comes about a month before the kickoff of the annual North of Falcon season-setting process....
With the Pacific Fishery Management Council considering bottomfish harvest levels for 2025-26 seasons, WDFW is looking for feedback from ocean anglers "on potential management measures to keep the catch within Washington’s recreational harvest guidelines."...
The fishing, hunting and conservation community has lost a passionate advocate and a very good man. Mike Meseberg, the longtime co-owner of MarDon Resort at Eastern Washington’s Potholes Reservoir, passed away at home with his family around him on December 26th....
After last year's closure and 2022's brief hunt, waterfowlers will get a chance to pursue brant geese in Skagit County for three days this month, thanks to just enough birds turning up in WDFW's bay count....
As comment wraps up later this week on the Washington Fish and Wildlife Commission's controversial Conservation Policy ahead of a late January vote, a bipartisan group of lawmakers in Olympia has introduced a bill that could help enshrine hunting and fishing...
The Oregon Fish and Wildlife Commission will meet Friday, January 12, to talk about recruiting a new ODFW director, following the announcement that Curt Melcher will retire soon, and will take public comment....
An ODFW webinar series on the rewrite of Oregon's mule deer management plan will wrap up next Tuesday, January 9, with a focus on the final chapters, which cover population monitoring, poaching and anthropogenic impacts....
The Sportsmen's Alliance Foundation is holding a public fundraiser in Centralia next week as it battles Governor Jay Inslee and trends on the state Fish and Wildlife Commission....
State and tribal comanagers have agreed to a Skagit-Sauk wild winter steelhead forecast of 5,215 fish, an almost carbon-copy of last season's prediction for the big North Cascades rivers....
With the high participation and catch rates filling the guideline, Columbia River managers closed sturgeon retention on the Bonneville and The Dalles Pools after just two days of fishing....
NMFS details how $27 million in federal funding will be spent to restore habitat for ESA-listed spring Chinook and winter steelhead and provide other benefits in Oregon's Willamette Basin....
