Federal, tribal, state and fishing parties appear to have agreed to ask a judge for another stay in a long-running challenge over dam operations on the lower Snake River so that negotiations can continue outside court....
An Army Corps of Engineers plan to build two huge and expensive fish collectors at a pair of its Willamette Valley dams to improve downstream salmon and steelhead passage is being scrutinized in a news story out today that argues there's...
WDFW says that with in-season data showing Chinook and coho are returning to the Quillayute and Hoh systems below forecast, the salmon limit will be reduced to one a day starting November 1....
They haven't been the easiest fish to catch this fall, but coho runs up the Willamette and Clackamas Rivers appear to have set new records, and the salmon are still coming as October draws to a close....
The funding will focus on shovel-ready and high-priority hatcheries that are funded with Mitchell Act grants — which include the Yakama Nation, the Nez Perce Tribe, and the states of Oregon, Washington and Idaho — are eligible. NOAA Fisheries will distribute...
The push and rush to implement a new conservation policy for the Washington Fish and Wildlife Commission and WDFW sooner rather than later was on raw display this morning....
Preservationists have filed yet another predator petition in Washington, this one asking the Fish and Wildlife Commission to reverse recent bear and cougar hunting decisions....
Planning for the upcoming Washington Coast winter steelhead fishery kicks off this evening during a WDFW webinar in which state managers will ask anglers and others for fishing proposals as well as reveal the 2023-24 run forecast and review last season....
Organizers of the annual Seattle Boat Show have set 2024 show dates and say there will be 177 fishing and boating seminars at the nine-day February event....
WDFW reports sampling nearly 100 more deer for chronic wasting disease testing over the past week of Washington's rifle deer season, about half of which were collected at the agency's expanded network of game check stations in Region 1....
With coho broodstock needs met or expected to be reached at hatcheries on the Satsop River and Hanford Reach of the Columbia River, WDFW announced a pair of limit increases this afternoon...