Effective immediately, the recreational Dungeness crab fisheries on the Washington coast south of the Queets River will close due to elevated marine toxin levels, state shellfish managers announced today....
While the Seattle Boat Show is going digital-only with its big January shindig, organizers of a major series of midwinter Northwest sportsmen's shows are rescheduling two of theirs for March but acknowledge the situation is still "very fluid" given Covid-19....
Washington steelheaders won't be able to fish out of a floating device on any coastal river systems starting Dec. 14 under sweeping conservation rules for streams from the Forks area south to Willapa Bay....
It won't be till at least tomorrow – and maybe later in the week at this pace – before this winter's major Washington Coast steelhead regulation changes are known....
As Washington Coast steelheaders and communities wait with bated breath for official word from WDFW on the ultimate shape of this winter's fisheries, the chair of the Fish and Wildlife Commission said he and other members were caught flat-footed about the...
The fishery has been very slow to date. Only 17 hatchery steelhead were harvested in October. Effort continued to be slow in November; only 452 angler trips (307 bank, 145 boat)...
A federal judge there tossed out a lawsuit from Montana's Alliance for the Wild Rockies which had challenged a 50,000-acre Okanogan-Wenatchee National Forest thinning and controlled burning, culvert replacement and riparian treatment project in Northcentral Washington's Methow Valley....
Every fall more than half of the coho salmon that return to Puget Sound’s urban streams die before they can spawn. In some streams, all of them die. But scientists didn’t know why....
Washington's ocean beaches will remain closed to razor clam harvest through December 31 after test results on ocean beaches indicate levels of domoic acid that exceed the threshold set by state public health officials for safe consumption....
Steller sea lions were lethally removed from the Columbia this fall, a first under recently granted federal authorization to Northwest states and tribes....
Anglers who harvest a hatchery winter steelhead and return the snout to an ODFW collection barrel have a chance to win a $50 gift card if their fish is coded wire tagged. Monthly prize drawings run through April 2021....
A plan to save summer steelhead fishing on the Skykomish River is under attack as an environmental group says it will sue state managers for allegedly violating the Endangered Species Act in jump-starting a new hatchery program....
During the summer of 2020, an area of unusually warm ocean water—a marine heatwave—grew off the West Coast of the United States. It became the second most expansive Northeast Pacific heatwave since monitoring began in 1982. ...
Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife (ODFW) and the Confederated Tribes of the Umatilla Indian Reservation (CTUIR) have determined that the same strain of bacterial pneumonia that caused a die-off in the Lookout Mountain bighorn sheep herd earlier in the year...