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. Before, the agency approved ...

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 River. All that and ...

An independent Washington think tank’s report raises more immediate questions about the state of the Fish and Wildlife Commission and its future than it does WDFW’s mandate to protect critters and ...

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 a US House reconciliation budget bill ...

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 ...

THE FOLLOWING FISHING REPORT WAS FORWARDED BY JERRY PRUIETT, WDFW Preliminary Lower Columbia River and Washington Tributary Sport Summary – May 19-25, 2025 Mainstem Columbia River Lower Columbia River ...

A bill that would hike the cost of most Washington fishing and hunting licenses by 38 percent narrowly passed out of the Senate today. With a 25-24 roll-call vote, Substitute Senate Bill 5583 now ...

Think tank’s deep dive into ‘dysfunctional’ Washington Fish and Wildlife Commission might be used by legislature to dissolve the citizen oversight panel instead of correct recent years’ issues. By ...

THE FOLLOWING ARE EXCERPTS FROM THE OREGON DEPARTMENT OF FISH AND WILDLIFE’S 2021 SPRING TURKEY HUNTING FORECAST Turkey hunting opportunities have expanded significantly in the last 20 years. Hunters ...

THE FOLLOWING IS A PRESS RELEASE FROM KING COUNTY NATURAL RESOURCES AND PARKS Seven years after a catastrophic decline in the number of adult kokanee salmon returning from Lake Sammamish put the ...

There are two salmon hatcheries in the Lake Washington watershed and they produce Chinook (listed as threatened under the Endangered Species Act), coho and sockeye for sport and tribal fisheries. As ...

Editor’s note: For more details on what lawmakers’ proposed budgets do and don’t fund versus WDFW’s requests, and what the potential impacts would be, see this WDFW breakdown. Washington fish ...