The Idaho Fish and Game Commission has approved a coho salmon season for the mainstem Clearwater, Middle Fork and North Fork Clearwater rivers.
The Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife has lifted fishing restrictions the lower Deschutes River. Anglers can now fish after 2 p.m. from Macks Canyon to the mouth of the river. The change is effective immediately.
As Montana creeps into the dog days of summer, state fisheries managers continue to monitor wild and native trout streams that have endured nearly two months of stressful low and warm water conditions.
Smallmouth bass, walleye, sunfish, perch, bluegill, catfish, crappie.
All are fish that thrive in the warm waters of several Oregon rivers. All are non-native, or invasive, species and, given the opportunity, some will feed on juvenile salmon and steelhead, many of those listed as threatened or endangered under the federal Endangered Species Act.
Globally, 60 percent of fish caught by recreational anglers are released and many of those anglers use manual release techniques they believe will help the fish survive.
Reports of fish die offs have been coming into the Idaho Department of Fish and Game regional office in Coeur d'Alene for about the last two weeks.
Fisheries managers in Idaho recently provided an update on ongoing research into the nature of lake trout, kokanee and native fish species in the Priest Lake ecosystem, finding that kokanee have been persistent despite the presence of lake trout.
With spring chinook salmon passing Bonneville Dam in higher numbers than expected, fish managers from Washington and Oregon this week agreed to extend the fishing season on the Columbia River for miles below and above the dam.
Spring chinook fishing in northeast Oregon kicked off Saturday, May 2 with the opening of the upper Snake River to salmon fishing. It is the first of several chinook fisheries expected to open later this spring.
The spring chinook sport fishery on the lower Columbia River will reopen for two days – Saturday, May 2, and Sunday, May 3 – under an agreement reached Thursday by fishery managers from Washington and Oregon.
A video posted on the Idaho Fish and Game website highlights a new approach by IDFG fisheries managers that will lead to better success for Idaho anglers. A good share of the hatchery rainbow trout stocked in Idaho's largest still-water fisheries this spring will be twelve inches instead of the standard of ten inches.
The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service announced this week that it will distribute $1.1 billion in revenues generated by the hunting and angling industry to state and territorial fish and wildlife agencies throughout the nation. These funds support critical fish and wildlife conservation efforts and recreation projects that benefit all Americans.
Oregon and Washington fishery managers have announced the 2015 summer and fall salmon seasons for the Columbia River.
While some people fish for fun and even food, others fish for the future.
That's what a group of volunteers have been doing recently on the South Fork Clearwater River from Stites to Mount Idaho.
With 2,856 upriver spring chinook salmon left in the spring fishing quota, the Columbia River Compact states of Oregon and Washington added a two-day salmon fishery for recreational anglers on the Columbia River downstream of Bonneville Dam.
Fisheries managers in eastern Washington have been collecting growing evidence that invasive northern pike have established a presence in Lake Roosevelt, presenting a growing threat to salmon and steelhead reaches in the Columbia River system.
A new study highlights the value of local knowledge in recovering endangered species.
The collaborative research, co-authored by NOAA Fisheries, the University of Washington, and researchers from the University of Alaska, Fairbanks, is specifically designed to incorporate the knowledge of recreational anglers into recovery planning for three rockfish species in Puget Sound--bocaccio, canary rockfish, and yelloweye rockfish, each of which was listed under the Endangered Species Act in 2010.
Mid-Columbia River anglers are being asked to help insure future fisheries by catching and providing live hatchery steelhead to the Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife to restock the Ringold Springs Hatchery on the Columbia north of the Tri-Cities (Kennewick, Pasco, Richland).
Anglers fishing along the north Oregon and Washington coasts, including off the mouth of the Columbia River, will likely see a catch quota for chinook salmon similar to last year's and a lower quota for coho, according to the Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife.
For anglers in Idaho’s Panhandle Region and biologists alike, one of the greatest highlights of 2014 was watching scores of anglers enjoy great kokanee fishing on Lake Pend Oreille for just the second time in 15 years.
Raising rainbow trout to a larger size in hatcheries has proven to be both financially beneficial for the state of Idaho and a plus for anglers, according to a four-year study completed by the Idaho Department of Fish and Wildlife.
Anticipating another strong return of spring chinook salmon, fishery managers from Washington and Oregon on Wednesday set the initial 2015 fishing season to run through April 10 on the lower Columbia River.
Steelhead anglers fishing most major tributaries of the Columbia River in Washington will be required to keep all steelhead of hatchery origin that they catch, up to a three-fish catch limit.
Idaho Fish and Game will ask Idaho lawmakers this legislative session to consider a proposal to increase resident Idaho license and tag fees, but the request has a twist; the proposal, if approved would be followed by a Fish and Game Commission order allowing license buyers to exempt themselves from the increase, as long as they buy an annual license starting this year.
Tagging of sport fish has given Idaho fisheries managers an easier and more accurate way to track exploitation rates in the state and, it seems, other states are taking notice.
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