Salmon managers from Oregon and Washington will consider a recommendation from state fish and wildlife staffers to close Buoy 10 and Lower Columbia Chinook, coho and steelhead fisheries after tomorrow....
Well ... look at the bright side, Deep South Sound salmon anglers: At least the closure didn't last that long, although it appears to have been unnecessary to begin with....
Just days after closing salmon fishing in Marine Area 13, Deep South Sound, WDFW announces it is reopening effective immediately, following "discussions with comanagers and evaluating current information."...
State and federal salmon managers used leftover summer hatchery coho in an "impact-neutral rollover" to boost the available number of wild and hatchery silvers available for harvest this September off Oregon's Central Coast....
Idaho Fish and Game briefs big game hunters on chronic wasting disease, discovered in five deer and elk south of Lewiston last fall, and new rules that have been adopted in response....
Late August catch stats for the Mid-Columbia River's Hanford Reach show a typical slow start to the fall Chinook fishery, but fish are on their way....
WDFW and ODFW announce that Chinook retention will close as of August 31 after state salmon managers from Washington and Oregon met today on the popular fishery at the mouth of the Columbia River following high catches of kings....
Rowland wanted the commission to A) hold discussions on management policies around the bucktoothed rodents that "supports the Department in assisting landowners with nonlethal solutions to beaver problems," and their premier role in restoring riparian areas. ...
With "expected catches" in both state and tribal Chinook fisheries lagging, WDFW announces that Marine Area 13, deep South Sound, will close to all salmon fishing as of Monday, August 29....
"An increase in ocean friendly days this year and higher catch rates of fish per trip" has ODFW prohibiting the retention of China and copper rockfish as well as cabezon, and dropping the general marine bag to four starting Sept. 6...
Before the four Lower Snake River dams can be breached, their services and benefits must be replaced or mitigated for, but the status quo around their operations is unviable as well....
For the first time since 2015, ocean salmon anglers will be able to retain wild coho off Westport, thanks to a rule change going into effect on Saturday....
An "unprecedented" mortality event involving around 20 sturgeon at Idaho's CJ Strike Reservoir, on the Snake, has led state managers to close the C&R fishery where water temps and dissolved oxygen levels have hit levels lethal to the long-lived species....
Researchers have found that Chinook and steelhead are also affected by a toxic tire compound washed into streams by rains, though not to the extreme degree of coho, but sockeye appear to be unaffected....
Public comment open on a WDFW proposal to reclassify Columbian whitetail deer from a state endangered species to a threatened one "based on encouraging conservation gains and population growth."...