OLYMPIA, Wash. — All local fishers can rejoice as fishing will be reopened on most rivers and tributaries for both salmon and all game fishing beginning Saturday, Oct. 29, on the southern coast.

Spring Chinook salmon fishing is reopening on the lower Columbia River for two weekends in May and four days in June, it was announced Wednesday, May 15, 2024, by Washington and Oregon fishery ...

Washington Department of Fish & Wildlife officials say tribal fishery managers and the state are in the final stages of reaching an agreement in the stalemate over salmon fishing. A deal could be ...

Happy clients with spring Chinook they caught while fishing with guide Matt Eleazer of East Fork Outfitters last year. With the runs improving in almost all waters, local anglers should be in store ...

Atlantic salmon also are a mainstay of the global salmon-farming industry, which has expanded in British Columbia and, to a much lesser extent, in Washington state. And in the 1990s, the Pacific ...

FISHING -- Washington allows more net-pen salmon farming than any other state. The huge failure of a net pen with more than 300,000 Atlantic salmon in waters esteemed for Pacific salmon is causing the ...

PORTLAND, Ore. (KOIN) – A new report released by the Governor’s Salmon Recovery Office in Washington, found some salmon populations have seen growth, while others are struggling and face extinction.

A nonprofit group spearheaded by the owner of a Washington fishing charter is challenging the state Department of Fish and Wildlife’s management of salmon under a landmark federal court decision, but ...

Bolstered by an unexpected surge in summer chinook salmon, nearly doubling the expected numbers at Bonneville Dam, Oregon and Washington decided Tuesday to allow more sportfishing in the Columbia ...

It’s open season on Atlantic salmon as the public is urged to help mop up a salmon spill from a damaged net pen holding 305,000 fish at a Cooke Aquaculture fish farm near Cypress Island. Lummi fishers ...

FISHING — Washington allows more net-pen salmon farming than any other state. The huge failure of a net pen with more than 300,000 Atlantic salmon in waters esteemed for Pacific salmon is causing the ...