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...
The Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife’s Aquatic invasive species (AIS) unit in 2020 detected more boats than ever fouled with non-native organisms....
Above the I-5 Br – 29 bank rods kept 18 coho, four coho jacks, one steelhead, two cutthroat and released 23 coho. 3 boats/7 rods kept five coho and one cutthroat. ...
Effective immediately, the recreational Dungeness crab fisheries on the Central Washington coast will close due to elevated marine toxin levels, state shellfish managers announced today....
A citizen reported seeing the animal in the back of an older two-toned square-bodied Ford pickup truck with a black Dakine mountain bike tailgate cover. ...
Recreation and conservation lands managed by local, state and federal governments now can be viewed easily online in a new mapping application, the Recreation and Conservation Office announced today....
A few nights ago I was talking to my folks when Dad asked about all the poaching cases that have been popping up on this blog. Is there that much unlawful killing of wildlife really going on this fall? he wondered....
tarting 2021, nonresident hunters in most general season elk and deer hunts will be limited to 10 or 15 percent of the total hunters in each elk zone or deer unit based on hunter participation estimates averaged over the last five...
