WDFW Proposing Changes To How Poaching Is Prosecuted
WDFW is proposing a suite of changes to how some fish and wildlife violations are prosecuted by counties across Washington.
Free Fishing Weekend This Sat., Sun. In Oregon
During these two days, no fishing licenses or tags (including a Combined Angling Tag or Columbia River Basin Endorsement) are required to fish, crab or clam anywhere in Oregon for both residents and non-residents.
Tasseomancy, Puget Sound Pink Salmon Style
The signs are getting better that this year’s Puget Sound pink salmon run will more than meet the relatively low preseason prediction — and perhaps come in well above it.
WDFW Commission OKs Asking Lawmakers For $24.5 Million From General Fund
WDFW will forgo another attempt at passing a hunting and fishing license increase next year and instead ask state lawmakers for $24.5 million from the General Fund to fill gaping holes in the agency’s budget.
Heart Of Derby Season Arrives In The Northwest
With two big events last weekend and a bunch more in the coming days and weeks, now through late September represents a great time to get on the water to try and catch a cash-winning trophy, win fishing gear, not to mention maybe score a boat package worth a whopping $75,000.
Survey Measures Washingtonian’s Trust In WDFW, Wildlife Values
“The purpose of the America’s Wildlife Values Project was to assess the social context of wildlife management in the U.S. in an attempt to understand this conflict,” reads a WDFW summary.
Cathlamet Again Kicking Out Lots Of Pikeminnows; Boyer Park Tops So Far
With the Columbia-Snake pikeminnow season just past its halfway mark, Cathlamet is once again serving up plenty of fish for anglers participating in the sport reward program.
A Few Pinks Turning Up In Straits And Sound, But Low Run Forecast
Don’t expect the action to be anywhere near as fast and furious as 2015, or as good as 2013, 2011, 2009, 2007, 2005 — you get the idea — but for the record, a few pinks are beginning to arrive and be caught in Washington’s inside waters.
2 New Members Named To WA Fish-Wildlife Commission
Governor Jay Inslee has appointed two new members to the Washington Fish and Wildlife Commission, a Douglas County rancher and a South Sound administrator.
Seattle Outdoor Radio Host Faces $2,500 Fine For Feeding Seal A Fish Fin
But a local radio show host who flicked a dorsal fin to another lurking like “dogs at the dinner table” of his marina’s floats to illustrate the pinniped’s overabundance and impact on ESA-listed stocks in the inland sea faces a bill that’s grown to $2,500 for doing so.
As Lummis Pitch Increased Chinook Releases For Orcas, Hatchery Opponents Dig In
In what’s billed as “a simple idea to save orcas,” the Lummi Nation wants to rear and release Chinook from one of more sea pens in the San Juan Islands.
$1,000 On Offer For North Sound Island Land Owners To Allow Hunting
Washington wildlife managers are offering landowners in San Juan and Island Counties up to $1,000 to allow hunters onto their property this fall, part of a bid to also reduce North Sound islands’ large blacktail population and help out other native flora and fauna.
Catch And Fun Both Up At Kids Steelhead Days II On The Sky
A trout pond added to the fun as young anglers also hooked and fought more summer-runs at the second Kids Steelhead Days on the Skykomish this past weekend.
Unexpected Culprits May Be To Blame For Most Chinook Smolt Losses In Lake WA Ship Canal
“This is an important — and preliminary — finding, and is slightly different from many existing ideas about which nonnative species are responsible for most of the smolt predation in the Lake Washington system.”
Plan Would Stave Off Closing Skagit-Sauk Steelheading Next Spring
Don’t hang up your Skagit-Sauk spoons, pink worms, plugs, jigs and flies again quite yet. State fishery managers appear to have a rough gameplan for how to keep the rivers’ wild steelhead catch-and-release fishery open next spring.
More From Minter Hatchery Generator Failure Report, Discipline For 3 Staffers
The root cause analysis for the failure of one at Minter Creek Hatchery last winter was released this week and it makes for some aggravating reading.