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.

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.

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 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 ...

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 ...

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 FOLLOWING IS THE MONTHLY “BEING FRANK” COLUMN FROM NORTHWEST INDIAN FISHERIES COMMISSION CHAIR ED JOHNSTONE. Tribes in western Washington are already seeing the impacts of presidential executive ...

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.

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.

Ahead of the Oregon Fish and Wildlife Commission's final decision late next week, ODFW has posted proposed wild fall Chinook regs for 2025's fishery, including closing most of the mainstem Umpqua and ...

WDFW announces it has finalized the purchase of a four-lane boat ramp and trailer and vehicle parking lot at Sekiu, an acquisition funded by state lawmakers and approved by the Fish and Wildlife ...