This year’s Baker Lake sockeye run is now expected to smash a record set just two years ago. BARRY DUBNOW SHOWS OFF A PAIR OF BAKER LAKE SOCKEYE HE CAUGHT EARLIER THIS SEASON. (KNIFE PHOTO CONTEST) ...

If you haven’t already heard about the recently completed Ruckelshaus report, you are going to get very familiar with it in the coming months. It will play a major role in the continued battle over ...

Pikeminnow season will start early this year at three stations on the Columbia River. COLUMBIA GORGE NORTHERN PIKEMINNOW. (PIKEMINNOW.ORG) Managers at the Northern Pikeminnow Sport-Reward Fishery ...

An Oregon Fish and Wildlife Commission workshop earlier this month showed Portlanders and Oregonians are well aware of the problem of 6PPD-q killing coho, and, what’s more, they appear to have doable ...

House Bill 2434 and its bid to disband the Washington Fish and Wildlife Commission won't go anywhere in Olympia this session, but this morning its prime sponsor certainly achieved his goal in ...

"One of the best forecasts" for Skagit-Sauk wild winter steelhead of recent years is out and state and tribal fishery managers are expected to announce rules and regulations for this season soon.

Following the release of a draft report on the Washington Fish and Wildlife Commission and its future, former member Kim Thorburn calls for three legislative fixes rather than moving WDFW under ...

A legislative hearing on holding a public vote to amend Washington's state constitution to enshrine the rights to hunt, fish and trap attracted a lot of attention this afternoon in Olympia, one of a ...

The Oregon Fish and Wildlife Commission today approved 2025 big game regulations, including a 2 percent increase in spring black bear tags and creating a new opportunity for youth hunters, among other ...

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.

ODFW details potential new mule deer hunt unit names, changes to long-standing area boundaries, and why there may be slightly fewer tags on tap for the species during the 2026 season east of the ...

A bill that would hike the cost of most Washington fishing and hunting licenses by 38 percent narrowly passed out of the Senate today.