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 ...

Mid- to late June 2025 sockeye, steelhead, Chinook, sturgeon, walleye and shad catch stats for the Lower Columbia, select Southwest Washington tributaries and the Willamette below the falls.

UPDATED 4:11 P.M., FRIDAY, JUNE 13, 2025 WITH AN ODFW PRESS RELEASE AT BOTTOM. Umpqua River wild Chinook anglers escaped a full closure but will still see a heavily restricted fishery this fall.

The federal government is pulling out of a deal that paused a long-running court case over Columbia River hydropower operations and their impacts on listed salmon and steelhead stocks and which might ...

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 ...

THE FOLLOWING IS A PRESS RELEASE FROM THE OREGON DEPARTMENT OF FISH AND WILDLIFE. Oregon and Washington fishery managers have finalized preseason planning for 2025 Columbia River summer and fall ...

The second of ODFW's three Free Fishing Weekends of the year is coming up June 7-8, a time when you can catch trout, go crabbing, or attend a family fishing event without a license.

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. All that and more is ...

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.

Season dates, permit levels, and information on new regulations around bear and cougar hunting, baiting, chronic wasting disease requirements and more are detailed in the 2025 Washington Big Game ...