The Washington Fish and Wildlife Commission is expected to make a decision on fishing guide logbook revisions and Director Susewind's performance agreement this Friday, while the panel's Wildlife Committee will hold a special meeting "to discuss the continued development and new...
WDFW is taking public comment on a number of 2023-24 hunting season proposals. Most center around special permit levels or annual reauthorizations, but some pertain to waterfowl limits or elk hunting at the Centralia Mine....
Another year, another poor Columbia summer steelhead run, with fishery restrictions again expected. State managers say only 63,400 A- and B-runs will return starting in July, a grim forecast marking what would be an eighth straight year of low returns....
A petition to list Olympic Peninsula steelhead under federal Endangered Species Act protections has been accepted by the National Marine Fisheries Service, which will now do a deep dive on the request from the Wild Fish Conservancy and The Conservation Angler....
Idaho wildlife managers will begin a deer cull next week in a basin where chronic wasting disease has been detected in at least 20 animals the past year and a half, part of an effort to reduce herd density and minimize...
There was a lot of good feedback on a Northeast Washington wolf bill this morning, including strident support from a Democratic cosponsor who is the chair of the committee it's in, boosting the odds that an amended version may move forward...
With surplus hatchery steelhead returning to open rivers in Southwest Washington and more than enough expected on coastal systems that are closed to fishing this season, WDFW is stocking winter-runs into lakes in Pacific, Cowlitz, Grays Harbor and Lewis Counties. ...
A bill that would enshrine the right to fish, hunt and forage in Oregon via a 2024 statewide vote on a constitutional amendment had a hearing in the state legislature....
More 2023 salmon forecasts are coming out as state managers are predicting a preharvest ocean abundance of 1.135 million Oregon Coast- and Columbia-bound coho, while initial indications suggest more spring Chinook will be available for harvest in the Lower Columbia....
Catch and release fishing will continue as usual, of course, but don’t expect any sturgeon retention opportunities this year on the Lower Columbia, where the population continues to decline, driven by poor recruitment of juveniles. No commercial season will be held...
Local and national hunting and fishing organizations are asking a powerful Washington state Senate committee chair to hold a public hearing on a bill that would "enhance" the process for nominating people to serve on the Fish and Wildlife Commission....
After discovering chronic wasting disease in central Idaho in fall 2021, testing last year found 15 more cases, all in whitetail and mule deer in the same basin south of Lewiston, yielding a prevalence rate as high as 10 percent at...
Why did Jericho Wolf Labonte run a 44-foot pleasure cruiser across the Columbia River Bar and out onto the Pacific in the face of pretty stiff southerlies on Friday? Who's to say, but a longtime local fishing guide who spent time...
Mocrocks will open for razor clam digging February 4, 6 and 8, providing another beach on the Washington Coast to harvest a limit over the coming days as marine toxin levels have abated to safe levels on them....
From bills addressing the Washington Fish and Wildlife Commission to nontribal gillnets in the Lower Columbia, riparian restoration to wolf recovery, here's an update on what's shaking in the state legislature so far this session....
