A new study found that coastal cutthroat trout are nearly as sensitive to a tire preservative byproduct that gets washed into streams during rainstorms as coho salmon are....
Ahead of the Oregon Fish and Wildlife Commission's final decision late next week, ODFW has posted proposed wild fall Chinook regs for 2025's fishery, including closing most of the mainstem Umpqua and decreasing the Nehalem limit to two for the season,...
Late spring 2025 spring Chinook, steelhead, sturgeon, shad and walleye catch stats for the Lower Columbia, select Southwest Washington tributaries and the Willamette River below the falls....
Ed Johnstone, chair of the Northwest Indian Fisheries Commission, says Western Washington tribes are seeing impacts from federal funding cuts to programs supporting salmon management....
A Northeast Washington wildlife biologist lays the problem of chronic cougar conflicts and political battles around the big cats in the state at the feet of a 1996 ballot initiative that sidelined hound hunters....
The second of ODFW's three Free Fishing Weekends of the year is coming up June 7-8, a time when you can catch trout, go crabbing, or attend a family fishing event without a license....
ODFW says anglers can now permanently use spears, spear guns and bait to help remove smallmouth bass from a coastal salmon stream where the bass were illegally introduced....
Late May 2025 spring Chinook, steelhead and shad catch stats for the Lower Columbia, select Southwest Washington tributaries, and the lower end of the Willamette system....
The abundance of four listed Columbia salmon and steelhead runs improved in 2024 relative to two years beforehand, and more stocks are on the positive side of a biannual ledger than the past two check-ins, but other listed threatened or endangered...
Columbia fall salmon season dates, hatchery-Chinook-only retention periods, September river closures, a new boundary line for a super popular fishery near the mouth of the Lewis. All that and more is in the recently posted ODFW-WDFW non-treaty fishing plan for the...
Hunters and anglers are cheering this evening after a bid to sell off or exchange nearly half a million acres of public land in the West was stripped out of US House's reconciliation budget bill following pushback from within the ranks....
Spring Chinook season will roll into mid-June on the Lower Columbia and reopen in the gorge pools for 25 days starting later this week, state managers decided this afternoon....
