The 2025-2026 salmon fishing seasons, cooperatively developed by WDFW and tribal co-managers, were tentatively set Tuesday at the week-long Pacific Fishery Management Council (PFMC) meeting held ...

Oregon's fishing regulations for protecting salmon runs aren't just words on paper — state troopers patrol the water, ...

But through repeatedly asserting their treaty rights to fish, often through lawsuits and concrete action like protesting by fishing, Washington state tribes have kept salmon, considered sacred, at ...

News WA Government Washington state’s costly salmon recovery effort heads toward mediation March 1, 2025 Updated Sun., March 2, 2025 at 8:46 p.m. Gov. Bob Ferguson, left, speaks with DSA ...

The state Department of Fisheries called out road culverts as culprits as early as 1949 in a pamphlet called “The Salmon Crisis. ” The next year, the state attorney general found that fish ...

The issue of seafood mislabeling has been recognized for some time, prompting Washington state to pass a law in 2013 aimed at reducing fish fraud.

In 2005, the Puyallup tribe built a Chinook salmon hatchery, of which they have several, with help from the Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife by providing eggs. According to Blake Smith ...