Federal officials are recommending tens of millions of dollars worth of funding for fish passage projects in Washington and Oregon in a second round of targeted national disbursements announced today....
A judge has issued a warrant for the 20-year-old Oregon Coast man accused of poisoning nearly 18,000 young Chinook after he failed to appear for a "rescheduled" court appearance, adding to the suspect's legal troubles....
Mid-May 2024 spring Chinook, steelhead and shad catch stats for the Lower Columbia reopener, as well as the Cowlitz, Kalama, Wind and Klickitat Rivers and Drano Lake....
Hatchery spring Chinook will be fair game again on the Lower Columbia starting this Friday, May 17, for the first of three staggered reopeners stretching over 10 days through mid-June, state managers decided this afternoon....
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WDFW announces that the hatchery summer steelhead-directed fishery on the Skykomish River between the Highway 2 bridge and the forks will not open till mid-June and close on July 10 as part of sweeping Snohomish Basin-wide restrictions due to low expected...
Columbia spring Chinook managers are proposing to reopen the big river below Bonneville for 10 days over the coming weeks, as well as a 12-hour tangle-net fishery this coming Monday that is drawing pushback from CCA....
With ESA coverage for 2023-24 salmon fisheries expiring May 15, WDFW is pausing spring Chinook fishing on the lower Skagit River and salmon fishing on Marine Area 13 for what's expected to be a short duration as federal overseers review the...
WDFW says that based on estimated harvest last week, the Snake River spring Chinook allocation has been met and the fishery is being closed effective immediately....
Three national pro-hunting conservation organizations have filed to intervene in a federal lawsuit from environmental and animal-rights groups challenging the US Fish and Wildlife Service's denial of a petition earlier this year to relist gray wolves in the Northern Rockies, including...
Debbie Colbert was chosen this afternoon by the Fish and Wildlife Commission following a lengthy closed-door executive session for final interviews with the two candidates. The vote was unanimous....
It bit a shrimp-baited steelhead jig and fought like a summer-run, but when Kris Frohberg reeled in his catch Tuesday evening on the lower Clackamas River, a fish of a very different stripe was on the end of his line....
Washington shellfish managers announced that the last dig of the long razor clam season will be May 6-12 and it will feature "the lowest tides of the year."...
WDFW reports that around 1 million smolts were lost at Samish Hatchery very early Monday morning as a result of a mechanical failure after leaves and other debris clogged a rotating intake screen following heavy rains and an alarm that should...
