The Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife is appealing more than $200,000 in state fines recently levied by the Department of Labor & Industries following investigations of accidents that occurred at two Westside smolt traps early this year....
WDFW announced several stretches of Southeast Washington's Snake River will open for fall Chinook and salmon anglers on Puget Sound's Areas 7 and 10 will get another crack at kings....
UPDATED 8:20 A.M., FRIDAY, AUGUST 9, 2024, AT BOTTOM WITH AN ODFW PRESS RELEASE With the hatchery coho quota expected to be all but full after this Sunday’s fishing, state managers will close salmon fishing off the mouth of the Columbia...
The Washington Department of Labor & Industries has fined WDFW $86,400 for a previously undisclosed accident on the Nisqually River last winter that sent a scientific tech to the hospital after he hit his head on the underside of a smolt...
Late July and early August 2024 Chinook, steelhead and walleye catch stats for the Lower Columbia River and select Southwest Washington side tributaries....
It's unclear how chronic wasting disease arrived in Washington, but state wildlife officials are now mobilizing to better understand how widespread the always-fatal deer family disease might be after last Thursday's announcement that a dead whitetail doe found just north of...
Organizers of the 5-mile "Swim Across the Columbia" fundraiser this afternoon are now putting out a wider advisory to Buoy 10 fall salmon anglers and other boaters on the lower river about their Sunday, August 11, event....
Northwest salmon habitat restoration, enhancement, fisheries and research and monitoring programs and projects stand to benefit from $105 million in recommended funding announced by the federal government today....
The Buoy 10 fall salmon fishery is off to the races this morning, and come sunrise Sunday, August 11, anglers there will need to keep an eye out for swimmers crossing the broad estuary of the Columbia....
Puget Sound salmon anglers will get one more day – August 4 – to fish for hatchery Chinook in Marine Areas 7, 9 and 10, the San Juan Islands, Admiralty Inlet and Seattle, WDFW announces...
Colorado may have to look elsewhere for gray wolves after the Colville Business Council rescinded its offer of up to 15 of the animals when it learned the state hadn't consulted with a local tribe on a voter-mandated reintroduction effort....
As gray wolf attacks on livestock heat up in Northeast Washington and WDFW considers removing members of two packs, Governor Jay Inslee's pressure on the Fish and Wildlife Commission not to downlist the species due to climate change is being raked...
WDFW announces that Chinook retention will close effective August 1 in the western Strait of Juan de Fuca, where 95 percent of total legal-size encounters had been used up through July 28. Coho will open on time August 16....
