ODFW announces fall 2022 Chinook and coho seasons for coastal rivers, which includes some salmon fishing closures and restrictions on harvest elsewhere, but expanded wild coho retention is expected....
A Georgia Congressman's plan to scrap a highly regarded excise tax on guns and ammo that has provided $15 billion in federal funding for wildlife conservation and hunting over eight and a half decades is so far off target as to...
The man responsible for a Southeast Oregon elk massacre that saw him pursue a herd of 100-plus animals in his Suburban and then he and a family member fire into them "17-30+ times" has been sentenced....
WDFW announces that salmon fishing season will be suspended in early July in Marine Area 4 off Neah Bay, while to the south off of La Push in Area 3, the Chinook limit will be reduced to one starting July 4....
Sockeye limits are being boosted on the Columbia River from Tri-Cities up to Chief Joseph Dam, thanks to a much larger than expected return of the salmon....
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...
