Word is spreading that Washington hatchery managers are in urgent need of help clipping salmon at a North Sound facility powering sport and commercial fisheries and orca forage initiatives....
Lower Columbia spring Chinook managers extended the sport fishery below Bonneville through next Tuesday, April 11, two more days than staff had recommended....
This year's Columbia smelt run is continuing its weird ways. After providing a surprise dipnetting opener on the Sandy River last week, at least 1,908 have been counted at Bonneville Dam, a rare appearance suggestive of ... well, something anyway....
With catches lagging way below expectations, Lower Columbia salmon managers are recommending an additional two days of fishing before the closure, with a final decision expected this afternoon....
WDFW greenlighted an April 6-12 razor clam dig on the Washington Coast and announced that the daily limit will be 20 per person through the end of season....
Late March and early April 2023 catch stats for the Lower Columbia and select Southwest Washington tributaries, plus an ODFW press release on the opening of the Hood River for hatchery springers starting at midmonth....
In his monthly "Being Frank" column, Ed Johnstone of the Northwest Indian Fisheries Commission offers strong support for salmon hatcheries and the fisheries and ecosystems they benefit and the threat to that from "frivolous lawsuits" and pie-in-the-sky thinking....
Washington's Fish and Wildlife Commission is meeting this Thursday through Saturday in Anacortes and will receive updates on the state's wolf population, Skagit elk issues, land acquisitions and comanager hatchery policy, and the Wildlife Committee will pick a new chair and...
There's a growing consensus among fish and wildlife experts that the wolverine spotted along the Lower Columbia near Portland last week may have in fact been something of a smelt whisperer....
After coming ever so close to being included in the federal budget last December, the bipartisan Recovering America's Wildlife Act has again been introduced in Congress, and that has fish and wildlife advocates applauding it and the $1.4 billion that would...
Oregon smelt managers announced a seven-hour dip on the lower Sandy River this Thursday afternoon and evening. A 2023 Oregon angling license is required....
Oregon State Police troopers report that a 69-year-old Glendale man has been sentenced for multiple wildlife and trespassing violations in a case stemming from an elk decoy operation in November 2020....
Three more Washington Fish and Wildlife Commissioners received do-confirm recommendations from a Senate committee, wrapping up this year's hearings for all nine members....
Oregon fish and wildlife managers are adding details about the Union County man who received 10 days in jail – "more ... than we typically see in fish and wildlife cases" – for killing and wasting a bull elk last fall....