A look toward possible winter 2024-25 Washington Coast steelhead fisheries, a glance back at last season and details on a one-year boat fishing study are all on the docket for a WDFW virtual meeting with anglers and others the evening of...
Featuring a new concrete boat launch, paved approach and ADA loading ramp, along with other updates and restoration work, the Headquarters Unit of the Skagit Wildlife Area is reopening this Friday ahead of the start of waterfowl season on the popular...
Stocking young Chinook in a bad location led to the deaths of all 37,600 of the fish on an Oregon Coast slough, ODFW acknowledged in a joint statement with the Coquille Indian Tribe....
Early October and late September 2024 Chinook, coho and steelhead catch stats for the Lower Columbia, select Southwest Washington tributaries and the Hanford Reach....
The large fishkill seen last fall below Green Peter Reservoir was the likely death knell for the Willamette Valley impoundment's popular kokanee fishery as court-ordered drawdowns for ESA-listed native stocks continue this year....
Summarizing her testimony to the Washington Fish and Wildlife Commission since her farewell address in March 2023, former member Kim Thorburn argues the body endlessly splits hairs over process, delays necessary actions, interferes with WDFW biologists' and managers' work and arrives...
Washington game wardens only recently began wearing body cams, but newly released footage adds more details to a late-night break-in last weekend at a salmon hatchery on the Cowlitz River while providing a you-are-there sense of what goes into policing the...
This weekend marks the start of the first of the Northwest's three primary general deer seasons as Oregon riflemen take the field in search of bucks, followed by Idaho then Washington later in October, so what can deer hunters expect?...
The body of fishing guide Michael Shufeldt was found yesterday morning in the Columbia Gorge 1.75 miles downstream from where he and his boat went down last Wednesday after taking a large wave over the stern....
Late September 2024 fall Chinook, coho, steelhead and sturgeon catch stats for the Lower Columbia, select Southwest Washington tributaries and the Hanford Reach....
We need to share a better story about why we hunt cougars, bears and other carnivores "because the future of hunting – and wildlife conservation – depends on it."...
WDFW says it has finalized a plan to use drones to count harbor seals and sea lions in marine waters and river estuaries to be able to estimate pinniped predation on salmon and steelhead....
The salmon fishing guide who went missing and is presumed drowned after a large wave came over the stern of his boat in the Columbia Gorge yesterday has been identified as Michael Shufeldt of Woodland....
The derby is on pause this year but fall Chinook broodstock collection continues as registration for what's been known in the past as King of the Reach is now open for Coastal Conservation Association members....
