WDFW announces that Area 9 hatchery Chinook retention will close beginning Friday, August 5, while there won't be another king opener in Area 7 as harvest quotas in both parts of Puget Sound are essentially expected to be filled....
Salmon, steelhead, trout and bass fishing will be open under normal permanent regulations starting Aug. 15 on the Deschutes River from Moody Rapids upstream to Pelton Dam in the Deschutes River. ...
Following withering pushback from hunting and other conservation organizations, the outdoor press and more, five Republican Congressman have now withdrawn their consponsorship from a bill that put the highly regarded Pittman-Robertson Act in the crossfire of the culture war over guns....
At a time of changing theories in fish and wildlife management and conservation and the funding thereof, Washington Governor Jay Inslee has a new senior natural resource policy advisor and hunters and anglers as well as close watchers of WDFW and...
A federal judge in Seattle has dealt another blow to an Anacortes-based fishing organization's lawsuit challenging authorization of recent Puget Sound Chinook seasons....
Bass anglers caught 2,000-plus smallmouth during the first weekend of a new derby on the Coquille, but a specially tagged fish worth $1,000 escaped capture on the Oregon South Coast river where round two will occur on the Saturday and Sunday...
Thanks to a big run of sockeye, Washington salmon managers are opening both the lower Wenatchee River and Lake Wenatchee for retention of the species in the coming days, with four-sockeye daily limits....
Support for hunting remains strong in Washington and opposition to the traditional activity barely registers more than single digits, according to a public survey just released by WDFW....
With halibut still available in the quota, WDFW announces August and September openers for coastal waters, the Strait of Juan de Fuca and elsewhere, as well as upcoming meetings to talk about 2023 season structure and proposed dates....
Washington game wardens will hand-deliver criminal charges against a Hood Canal trio found with nearly 15 times the limit of spot shrimp, the latest example of bad behavior by shellfish swine, folks who grossly exceed the rules and steal natural resources...
Chinook retention will close in Marine Area 2, off Westport, on Fridays and Saturdays starting July 22, WDFW announces, a measure meant to stay within the "modest" king harvest guideline and stretch the season and tap into abundant hatchery coho.
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ODFW reports that an adult wolf and five pups were photographed on a trail cam in the Cascades in an area where one wolf was being monitored after being spotted in August 2021....