WDFW is detailing tentative 2025-26 Washington salmon fisheries, including bonus pinks in most inner Puget Sound fisheries, Skykomish summer Chinook, Skagit-Baker sockeye, ocean kings and coho, and Buoy 10 fall fish, among others. The proposals now go to NMFS for final...
Early to mid-April 2025 spring Chinook and steelhead catch stats for the Lower Columbia and select Southwest Washington tributaries including That One....
Oregon's wolf population grew to a minimum of 204 wolves across the state at the end of 2024, an increase of 15 percent over the previous tally, according to the just-released annual report....
More details are emerging on Washington's newest Fish and Wildlife Commission member, as well as reformists' reaction to Governor Bob Ferguson's Monday appointments....
ODFW details potential new mule deer hunt unit names, changes to long-standing area boundaries, and why there may be slightly fewer tags on tap for the species during the 2026 season east of the Cascades. Final decision from the Fish and...
Fishing for hatchery spring Chinook will reopen on the Lower Columbia April 11-13 and 15-17, salmon managers at WDFW and ODFW decided this afternoon....
A New York Times article out this morning details how Chinook production at nearly a dozen hatcheries in Western Washington is said to be in “limbo” because cuts back in DC put a critical National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration staffer out...
The reviews continue to roll in on yesterday's pleasing appointments to the Washington Fish and Wildlife Commission – reaction from NWIFC, RMEF, the Congressional Sportsmen's Foundation, former Commissioner Kim Thorburn, Chair Barbara Baker, Puget Sound Anglers state board, and Commissioner Molly...
An inseason runsize downgrade of nearly 1,900 wild steelhead is leading state managers to close all fishing on the Sauk and Skagit Rivers effective the end of the day, April 10. Tribal managers are also closing their fisheries....
Molly Linville will return to the Washington Fish and Wildlife Commission, Jim Anderson has been reappointed, and an Anacortes man will also join the citizen panel....
A minimum of 230 wolves roamed the Evergreen State at the end of last year, a decrease over the previous count and ending 15 straight years of population growth, though the number of packs grew and overall numbers have still grown...
The Washington Fish and Wildlife Commission voted late this morning to acquire 655 acres in Pacific County for waterfowl, salmon habitat restoration and improve recreational access....
Temporary good news for Willamette Valley kokanee anglers: The Army Corps of Engineers is delaying their super-deep drawdown of Detroit Lake from this fall to late 2026....
With some Central Oregon mule deer coming out of winter "at very low weights" following a bad fire season last year, the Phillip W. Schneider Wildlife Area won't open for shed hunting and other public entry till May 1 so as...
