WDFW is laying off staffers for 29 positions, not filling many of 170 vacancies, shutting down a hatchery, closing a popular steelhead fishery next year and is being forced to let a predator ...

Yesterday, the federal government backed out of a “landmark” deal aimed at restoring salmon and steelhead runs in the Columbia Basin. But the work is far from dead. So vowed Tucker Jones, the Oregon ...

As Washington hunters sat on pins and needles earlier this week prodding WDFW’s special permits website in hopes of seeing they’d been drawn, I got a backdoor glimpse into how the agency awards the ...

A new study found that coastal cutthroat trout are nearly as sensitive to a tire preservative byproduct that gets washed into streams during rainstorms as coho salmon are. COASTAL CUTTHROAT TROUT ...

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 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 ...

The Washington Fish and Wildlife Commission is preparing to walk away from its controversial draft Conservation Policy. JOHN LEHMKUHL, WASHINGTON FISH AND WILDLIFE COMMISSION MEMBER AND CHAIR OF THE ...

There’s still the matter of the governor’s signature – or veto – but WDFW is taking stock of the Operating and Capital Budgets that Washington’s legislature just passed in Olympia. Per an all-staff ...

Washington lawmakers passed a bill reinstating the Columbia River endorsement to fish for salmon and steelhead this afternoon following amendments to it in the Senate and concurrence from the House.

A bill that would bring back Washington’s Columbia River endorsement requirement to fish for salmon and steelhead in much of the watershed was tweaked in committee this afternoon as it received a ...

A fishing and hunting license increase is one big step closer to hitting most Washington hunters and anglers’ wallets this summer after Substitute Senate Bill 5583 passed out of the House of ...