WDFW, in consultation with fishing advisors for Puget Sound, has decided to temporarily close this fishery until later in the season in order to preserve future fishing opportunities and to limit impacts to natural-origin Chinook. ...
As if these times weren't quite polarized enough, there weren't far, far weightier things environmental groups could be working on, and a generalist species that's doing just fine needed any more help, a pro-wolf coalition says they're going to sue over...
Steelheaders have just one week left to comment on a proposed Skykomish River hatchery summer-run program that would utilize natural-origin fish, essentially a do-or-die bid for the future of the important Puget Sound fishery....
A new report from the Governor’s Salmon Recovery Office shows that many salmon populations still are teetering on the brink of extinction and without drastic changes to how Washington addresses climate change and population growth, may not survive....
Washington steelheaders are pushing back harder on WDFW's coastal restrictions, with West End guides calling for anglers to rally in Forks tomorrow afternoon in protest of the boat-fishing ban....
The Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife (WDFW) is asking for public feedback on six land acquisition proposals that would help promote fish and wildlife conservation and public access to the great outdoors. ...
State lawmakers this afternoon held the first of the week's two hearings on WDFW's unprecedented coastal steelhead restrictions this season, listening as guides outlined the economic impacts to their businesses and communities, as well as listed alternative regs they'd like to...
Jackson County Assistant District Attorney Melissa LeRitz, has won 2020 Prosecutor of the Year honors from the Oregon State Police Fish and Wildlife Division....
The Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife (WDFW) today announced continuing hunts in Clallam, Pacific, and Whatcom counties and a three-day hunting season for brant geese in Skagit County....
As the appointment of two new members to the Washington Fish and Wildlife Commission continues to raise eyebrows, the chairs of committees overseeing WDFW in the state legislature are also outlining their priorities for the agency....
The NW Ice Fishing Festival in the Okanogan Highlands is a go Jan. 16 and and registration is now open for the 17th annual derby that runs 8 a.m. to 3 p.m. on the Saturday of Martin Luther King Jr. Weekend....
Nobody needs to hear from a Northwest hook-and-bullet magazine editor in the wake of what happened Wednesday in the capitol of our nation, but along with the rest of our countrymen and many across the world, I'm also still processing things....
The Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife (WDFW) is seeking applications for a volunteer citizen committee that advises the department on Puget Sound recreational crab and shrimp fishing issues....
A long-term study from Brownlee Reservoir, conducted by Idaho Fish and Game and Idaho Power biologists, has shed some light on what makes crappie fishing good or bad at this popular Southwest Idaho reservoir....