Columbia River salmon managers reopened hatchery summer Chinook season on most of the Lower Columbia and added sockeye to the two-adult-salmonid bag limit there and through the gorge pools....
With numerous southern resident killer whales in poor body condition and several pregnant, WDFW issued an emergency order requiring commercial whale-watching boats to stay a half-mile away from the orcas and urged all boaters to "Be Whale Wise and do the...
On paper it is a staggering 12,000 more fish than the old high mark, June 26, 2012's 41,573, but Monday's count still has yet to be posted by the Fish Passage Center and with the way this year's run is coming...
Two more pike were netted out of Lake Washington during now-annual tribal test fishing this spring, while shad numbers nearly doubled over 2021's catch, worrisome trends for the big Seattle watershed....
Sockeye catches are on the rise in the Hanford Reach stretch of the Mid-Columbia River and a few hatchery summer Chinook have been caught as well, according to late June 2022 catch sampling by WDFW....
A $500 reward is being offered for the late night shooting and wastage of a buck at an Oregon Coast boat launch June 17 by a man armed with a handgun....
The state of Oregon and Mid-Columbia Basin tribes put their weight behind breaching the four lower Snake River dams in Washington at a rally on Saturday....
There's just something about June 26 at Bonneville when it comes to sockeye. Yesterday saw the second highest daily count ever at the lowest Columbia River dam, 40,584 – a figure that is just 1,000 fish shy of the all-time high...
There was distinctly different body language and audibly different tones in the voices of panel members and WDFW staffers as they spoke this afternoon about whether to adopt more binding rules around conflict prevention measures and lethal removals, the science around...
Year two of WDFW's elk calf capture-collar effort in the Blue Mountains has wrapped up but it fell short of the project's goal, with only 102 of the young wapiti outfitted with a tracking device as the agency studies the reasons...
The young girl hospitalized for a week with serious injuries from a cougar attack last month had another encounter with a big cat in Northeast Washington today – a far, far more positive and uplifting one....
WDFW announces that the Chinook limit off of Neah Bay is dropping to one a day as of this Friday, June 24, "to preserve the season length while avoiding exceedance of the Chinook guideline and maximizing catch of the available coho...
Spring bears, cougars, wolf-livestock conflicts, game management, e-bikes, conservation policy. Top it off with a proposal to exclude salmon, steelhead, halibut, sturgeon and shellfish from Free Fishing Weekend license exemptions and you've got the makings of what could be a pretty...
WDFW says a long-dead grizzly found on a North Puget Sound beach north of Bellingham may have been washed out of nearby mountains during spring flooding but also notes the species is known to swim from the British Columbia mainland over...