ODFW announces steelhead, bass, Chinook and coho fishing closures for sections of the Deschutes River in the coming months due to a low return of Inland Northwest-bound summer-runs, though trout will remain open....
Fishing and hunting show season in the Northwest seems like it just wrapped up, but there's news today that next year will see the return of an ocean-angler-oriented show in Salem that's been on pause the past two winters....
The death of a Northeast Oregon wolf initially reported to have likely succumbed to a gunshot is now being considered a roadkill after examination at a federal forensic lab....
WDFW announces spring Chinook fisheries will soon open on portions of the North Fork Nooksack, upper Skagit and lower Cascade Rivers, but that this week will be the last for springers on the Lower Snake as quotas are reached....
Court papers are revealing more details related to a judge's order late last week granting a preliminary injunction for ODFW to release summer steelhead smolts from a hatchery on the North Umpqua....
Hatchery summer steelhead smolts were released today from Rock Creek Hatchery into the North Umpqua River per a court order issued this week by the Marion County Circuit Court, ODFW reported....
An invasive European green crab has been found in central Hood Canal, the first discovery in the fjord and the furthest south in Washington's inland seas the species has been found so far....
WDFW is taking public comment over the next five weeks on a proposal to allow hunters to take a second mountain lion "in the areas where monitoring has shown a high level of cougar predation on elk calves in the Blue...
ODFW is confirming that hatchery summer steelhead smolts will be released into the North Umpqua system after a judge yesterday granted a preliminary injunction to do so. It follows a Fish and Wildlife Commission decision last month to end the program...
There appear to be developments today on the North Umpqua hatchery steelhead program that the Oregon Fish and Wildlife Commission voted last month to terminate....
Spring Chinook anglers will be able to fish all but one day between now and the start of summer king season on the Lower Columbia, as well as two days in the gorge pools in late May, as state managers today...
WDFW is calling for nominations to fill four vacant positions on its Wolf Advisory Group and is specifically looking for stakeholders representing hunters, Northeast Washington ranchers, and "at large" interests....
ODFW reports several Canada goose goslings from a Eugene park are the first wild birds in the state to test positive for the new strain of avian flu, with other sick and dead waterfowl also reported there....
Northwest fishery managers announce the opening of spring Chinook in Oregon's Hells Canyon, where the catch is mostly expected to be jacks, and sturgeon retention in Lake Roosevelt for the sixth straight year thanks to successful hatchery programs....
