Andy Walgamott

Idaho fishery managers continue to sound the alarm about walleye moving up the Snake and Salmon Rivers and say the nonnative fish "now occupy critical rearing and migratory areas of juvenile salmon and steelhead."

Washington Coast winter steelhead forecasts are out ahead of this week's town hall with anglers to begin shaping 2024-25 season proposals, and for a change the Chehalis prediction looks decent.

Washington wildlife biologists took samples from just over 100 deer for chronic wasting disease testing at 10 check stations during the second weekend of modern firearms season in Region 1, a bit more than were collected at both game checks and in the field at this same time last year.

A Snohomish County man drove his side-by-side through a wild Chinook redd on a stretch of the Skykomish River that has been closed to all fishing this season due to critically low numbers of the salmon species.

The Washington Fish and Wildlife Commission will get a good look at WDFW's science and potential hunting frameworks for future black bear and cougar seasons when it convenes Friday in Ellensburg.

Green means go for Marine Area 13 and Kennedy Creek chum salmon anglers starting November 1, per a rule change out this afternoon from WDFW.

It's the end of Tokul Creek Hatchery early winter-run production and crossed fingers that federal overseers will eventually approve a new state-tribal broodstock program for the future of consumptive steelheading opportunities on the Snoqualmie River.

A fifth-generation Baker City tree farmer and rancher has been named to the Oregon Fish and Wildlife Commission.

Divers are cleaning the Lower Columbia and its tributaries of lost fishing gear, dozens of 360 setups at a time. Who are they, why are they doing it and what the heck do they do with all the still-usable gear?!?

Late October and early November 2024 fall Chinook, coho and steelhead catch stats for the Lower Columbia and select Southwest Washington tributaries.