Petitions to create new Eastside and Westside deer tags and do away with the perch limit on Chelan County's Fish Lake, land acquisitions, committee meetings, the draft Conservation Policy, cougar management and more are on the Washington Fish and Wildife Commission's...
The reward for information on an Eastern Oregon bighorn shot for its head alone last fall has reached $4,500 after the Oregon Wild Sheep Foundation added to the fund in hopes of bringing the poacher(s) to justice....
Oregon steelhead managers issued a reminder to Santiam system anglers that since 2021, fishing has been restricted to artificial lures and flies from November 1 through April 21 to protect ESA-listed wild winter-runs....
Pugetropolis salmon anglers may want to become more familiar with a certain fisheries management term over the coming weeks of North of Falcon: "lower bound threshold."...
A teenage angler caught a northern pike at a pond on the west side of San Juan Island, and WDFW crews will gillnet the waters starting as early as next week to eradicate any others illegally introduced there....
WDFW reports that in-season monitoring shows this year's Cowlitz smelt run is big enough to support another opener, but unlike mid-February's Thursday morning dip, the one coming up Tuesday, March 5, will occur in the afternoon to try and "increase harvest...
WDFW rolled out a host of spring Chinook rule changes this afternoon affecting Southwest Washington tributaries including the Cowlitz, Kalama, Wind, Drano and Klickitat....
A new paper on Northeast Washington elk, wolves and cougars will give hunters and local residents – themselves active participants in this dynamic interplay – some things to chew on....
A new Columbia River hatchery coho forecasting model, new tule Chinook harvest matrix and more 2024 West Coast salmon predictions are being rolled out this week for public perusal....
It took awhile, but a Lower Columbia sturgeon poacher was sentenced to jail, fined and had his fishing license suspended for three years for attempting to retain an oversize fish, among other violations....
The Biden Administration, states of Oregon and Washington and Nez Perce, Yakama, Warm Springs and Umatilla Tribes signed the Columbia Basin Commitments at a White House ceremony, putting into effect a court stay to work on Snake River salmon and steelhead...
A bill requiring a fishing license to dip for smelt on the Cowlitz and elsewhere in the state is one step closer to becoming law after being passed on a 49-0 vote in Washington's Senate late this morning....
More details on last Saturday's cougar attack on a 60-year-old woman on an upper Snoqualmie Valley trail are coming out, including how fellow cyclists fought the animal and their desperate 911 call, and they make for tough reading....
Comment is open into late March on WDFW's three-year hunting package proposals, routine but "in-depth" rulemaking, and this go-around the agency is looking for feedback on a raft of ideas, from general deer season regs to bighorn special permits, hunter orange/pink...
House Bill 2434 and its bid to disband the Washington Fish and Wildlife Commission won't go anywhere in Olympia this session, but this morning its prime sponsor certainly achieved his goal in introducing the "hand grenade." A couple others went off...