ODFW reports that more than twice as many wild summer steelhead have been counted on the North Umpqua compared to all of 2021, and while still below average, the agency considers it an "encouraging sign" for the struggling stock, and the...
A federal five-year review of ESA-listed salmon and steelhead in the Snake and Mid- and Upper Columbia Rivers finds increasing urgency to implement "recommended recovery actions" such as fish passage, habitat work, predatory control and more, but doesn't analyze dam breaching...
WDFW announces Chinook rule changes for Marine Area 2, including a retention closure starting Tuesday, August 23, so as not to exceed the season's "modest" king guideline and keep fishing for more abundant coho open for the rest of summer....
George Wuerthner will be no stranger to lonely howls in the wilderness, and that's pretty much what he's issued over legal, regulated tribal wolf harvest in the wolfiest part of Washington....
An angler who caught a 10-foot-4 sturgeon on a Snake River reservoir in Southwest Idaho has set a new state catch-and-release record for the species....
Got a young'n eager to try their hand at hunting birds? ODFW is holding a series of pheasant hunts at wildlife areas and private lands across the state in September and October and here are the details....
Washington salmon managers announce that Elliott Bay will open for another long, extended weekend of salmon fishing, thanks to in-season info that shows enough Chinook are returning to support more days on the water for anglers on the Seattle waterfront....
"Sound the alarm: tuna are back close to our coast again and in big, big numbers."
So writes Jeff Holmes in a fishing report fresh from the Pacific off Westport, where he and a crew of old hands and albacore virgins slayed...
A US District Court judge has found that the National Marine Fisheries Service screwed up when it authorized a Southeast Alaska salmon fishing plan that leaned on unclear hatchery production increases at that time to mitigate the take of Chinook that...
Washington natural resource agencies recognize over a dozen large landowners in the timber business for correcting almost 8,500 fish passage barriers and reopening 5,200 miles of fish habitat before a state Road Maintenance and Abandonment Plan deadline last October....
Early August 2022 fall Chinook, coho, steelhead, sturgeon and pikeminnow catch stats for the Lower Columbia, Southwest Washington tributaries and other waters....
Oregon wildlife troopers are looking for information on the death of a female wolf believed to have been shot the morning of August 4 on the east side of the Wallowa Mountains, north of Halfway....