A memorandum signed by President Biden today directs a host of federal agencies "to prioritize the restoration of healthy and abundant wild salmon, steelhead, and other native fish populations to the Columbia River Basin."...
A bill that would reauthorize funding hunter education and archery programs in schools passed the US House of Representatives in a near-unanimous vote yesterday and the Senate today, it has been reported....
WDFW announced that razor clam digging has been greenlighted for Long Beach, Twin Harbors and Copalis starting September 29, but marine toxin levels are postponing the season opener at Mocrocks....
After a two-and-a-half-month-long closure, the Quillayute and its tributaries such as the Bogachiel, Sol Duc and others will reopen to all fishing starting next Sunday, October 1....
Fall Chinook catches continue to increase in the Mid-Columbia's Hanford Reach, but managers say they won't be able to increase the limit to two kings a day after a runsize update "did not track as we had hoped."...
Governor Jay Inslee is acknowledging the monumental importance of hunting and fishing to conservation in Washington in a proclamation he signed ahead of tomorrow's national day of recognition for the beloved ways of life....
WDFW will hold an online town hall the evening of October 25 to begin talking to anglers and the public about the shape of the 2023-24 coastal winter steelhead season for streams from Forks to Naselle. ...
CWD was detected in northern Idaho in 2021, just 30 miles from the Oregon border. It is always fatal to deer and elk and there is no cure. The more animals that are tested, the more certain ODFW can be that...
A recently approved habitat conservation plan for private timberlands in the Clackamas and Molalla River basins east of Portland is being called a first of its kind for Oregon and is expected to result in improved Chinook, coho and steelhead habitat....
Federal governments on both sides of the North Cascades appear to be moving forward more seriously now with plans to reintroduce grizzly bears in the rugged border-straddling range....
An agreement between the federal government and Northeast Washington tribes will "fund efforts to test the feasibility of, and ultimately to reintroduce salmon in blocked habitats" of the Upper Columbia River....
ODFW reports having to release over 400,000 fall Chinook and 23,000 winter steelhead being reared at the Elk River Hatchery earlier than planned after level three evacuations caused by a wildfire burning in the Coast Range....
Fall salmon fishing on the Lower Columbia has been reopened from Puget Island to Warrior Rock and extended from Warrior Rock to Bonneville Dam effective September 22, state managers decided this afternoon....
Latest catch stats for the Hanford Reach of the Mid-Columbia show increasing fall Chinook catches and word that the daily limit for upriver brights may increase to two if the good early dam counts continue to track....