THE FOLLOWING IS A PRESS RELEASE FROM THE OREGON DEPARTMENT OF FISH AND WILDLIFE Everyone can fish, clam and crab for free in Oregon on Saturday and Sunday, June 7-8, 2025. No fishing/shellfish ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

WDFW is detailing tentative 2025-26 Washington salmon fisheries, including bonus pinks in most inner Puget Sound fisheries, Skykomish summer Chinook, Skagit-Baker sockeye, ocean kings and coho, and ...

By Jillian Garrett Times are changing in the world of outdoor recreation, and nowhere more so than when it comes to wildlife. In the most recent edition of Fishing, Hunting, and Wildlife-Associated ...

DEER and ELK Mule deer survival rates were good considering the long winter we experienced here is Umatilla County. However, mule deer numbers are still below management objectives (MOs) in all units, ...

That effort is also meant to “reaffirm” Colbert’s high expectations of her staff’s care and feeding, per se, of the 35 million salmon and steelhead and 5 million trout that ODFW annually rears and ...

Washington’s two gubernatorial candidates have detailed their positions on salmon fisheries and recovering Chinook and other stocks, hatcheries and the Fish and Wildlife Commission in response to Q&As ...

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 ...