Befittingly, it's a sticky-sharp topic, but Oregon salmon and steelhead fishery managers plan to broach the subject of barbed hooks on the Columbia with their counterparts in Washington over the coming year....
It will be awhile before the record floodwaters from this week's back to back atmospheric rivers fully drain away across the North Sound and elsewhere in Washington and the true extent of damage to homes, farms, businesses, towns, roads and other...
Just two days after Washington state wildlife overseers turned down his "critical" request last month for wolves for a voter-mandated reintroduction effort, the former director of Colorado Parks & Wildlife sent a last-ditch plea to the Colville Tribes....
The good news? With removal of four dams on the Klamath River completed in 2024, thousands of Chinook have wasted little time making their way back into Southern Oregon waters.
The not-so-good news? So too have poachers. Or at least two, anyway....
Columbia salmon managers are forecasting 147,300 above-Bonneville-bound spring Chinook in 2026, similar to last season's actual return that bested the prediction by over 30,000 fish and allowed for angling in May and June on the lower river....
Crabbers who harvested Dungies in Puget Sound's Eastern Straits, San Juans and Admiralty Inlet will receive an invite to complete an anonymous online survey about their 2025 catches starting tomorrow, a WDFW project "to understand catch patterns in smaller parts of...
Oregon Coast Chinook do not warrant listing under the Endangered Species Act. So says the National Marine Fisheries Service in a notice published on the Federal Register today. The feds had been petitioned to list two populations – Oregon Coast and...
Oregon's Fish and Wildlife Commission is meeting late next week to hear a briefing on Columbia River barbless hook regs and decide on a 2026-long 4-rockfish bag (or a shorter 5-fish season?) and 3-lingcod limit, among other items....
The impact of sea lion and seal predation on listed Northwest salmon and steelhead stocks was the subject of a US House subcommittee hearing, which saw testimony from tribal leaders and the American Sportfishing Association....
It seems like the idea's been around long enough to just about qualify for old-growth status, but a bill to designate select public woods and waters on the Olympic Peninsula as wilderness or wild and scenic again advanced after a US...
With as many as 70 percent of Yakima River salmon and steelhead smolts reportedly dying as they migrate down the lower 40 miles of this Eastern Washington stream, federal and tribal officials are teaming up to figure out how to improve...
Washington wildlife managers plan to start a new study to figure out what's ailing wapiti in the mountainous southeast corner of the state, this one focusing on the health of cow elk....
Anybody who's ever been around a Northwest stream in fall can tell when the salmon are in just by the stench of washed-up, decomposing fish, but a new study shows that the presence of genetic material from ones still swimming upstream...
Less than two weeks after striking out on a request for Washington wolves to help fuel his state's voter-mandated reintroduction effort, Jeff Davis has "stepped down" as the director of Colorado Parks and Wildlife and is taking another role in state...
John Keizer, Tom Nelson, Paul Kim, Tommy Donlin and other expert anglers will lead fishing seminars at the January 30-February 7, 2026, Seattle Boat Show, organizers announced today....
