Despite widespread public opposition, Cooke Aquaculture has been granted a five-year permit to farm steelhead in Puget Sound and the greater Salish Sea. The Washington …
The Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife (WDFW) confirmed that it plans to issue a five-year marine aquaculture permit to the Canadian aquaculture company to farm …
With fairly strong returns of wild winter and spring steelhead in recent years, the Skagit provides a unique opportunity for anglers to catch and release …
Here’s a real head-scratcher. While the region grapples with how to restore dismal salmon runs, barbless hook requirements on salmon and steelhead fishing are being …
WTF Washington? Anglers in Washington could soon have the choice to fish with barbed hooks while pursuing salmon, steelhead and other species in much of …
For the second year in a row, anglers will get the chance to chase wild steelhead during a catch-and-release fishery beginning Feb. 1 on the …
The purpose of the Smith Island Restoration project is to re-establish historic tidal marshlands that provide critical habitat for threatened Chinook salmon, as well as …
Perhaps the folks at the WDFW should ask their colleagues over at the Department of Ecology not to authorize any more permits for salmon net …
It’s not all salmon, steelhead and sea run cutties here in the Evergreen State.
Yesterday we were left scratching our heads when we learned that the Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife had “lost” 514,000 hatchery steelhead and cutthroat …