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  • Pres. Trump's Pending Rules on Ca Water Missing Documents and Hurried Reviews

    Pres. Trump's Pending Rules on Ca Water Missing Documents and Hurried Reviews

    Trump’s Pending Rules on California Water Marked by Missing Documents and Hurried Reviews, Say Scientists. Restore the Delta Comment: With or without a tunnel, the Delta will not survive excessive water exports.

  • Wild Salmon Game for Kids from NOAA

    Wild Salmon Game for Kids from NOAA

    To celebrate the International Year of the Salmon, NOAA Fisheries has collaborated with the educational tech app, Agents of Discovery, to launch Sea-Run, GO!, a game that teaches youth and the young at heart about wild Atlantic salmon and other migratory fish that inhabit the rivers and coasts of New England.

  • 2019-20 Fishing Regs for Washington State Now Available

    2019-20 Fishing Regs for Washington State Now Available

    Start planning for your next fishing trip with the 2019-2020 Washington Sport Fishing Rules pamphlet, now available from the Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife (WDFW).

  • Now Hiring Wildlife Officers for CDFW

    Now Hiring Wildlife Officers for CDFW

    CDFW is particularly interested in recruiting applicants with a love of the outdoors and a passion for fish and wildlife conservation.

  • Legislation Passed Requiring Permits for Non-Motorized Boats

    Legislation Passed Requiring Permits for Non-Motorized Boats

    Last week, the Oregon Senate and House passed SB47 – legislation that would require operators of nonmotorized boats to purchase a waterway access permit – sending the measure to Governor Kate Brown who is expected to sign it into law.

  • 36 Year State Sunfish Record Broken

    36 Year State Sunfish Record Broken

    We started fishing in a pond but weren’t having any luck, so I said to my kids, ‘Let’s go back to where I learned how to fish’ and this is what we caught,”

  • Yamaha Marine Joins Joint Project to Design Device for Removing Plastics

    Yamaha Marine Joins Joint Project to Design Device for Removing Plastics

    Yamaha U.S. Marine Business Unit and Clearwater Mills, L.L.C. of Pasadena, Maryland, agreed to jointly design a device for removing plastics and other floating debris from coastal stormwater systems.

  • 1.45 Million Plus Fingerling Landlocked Salmon Stocked in California

    1.45 Million Plus Fingerling Landlocked Salmon Stocked in California

    This year’s stocking consisted of releasing 792,942 fingerling Kokanee Salmon into 16 waters and 672,734 sterile, fingerling Chinook salmon into eight waters.

  • Fish Study Tests Health of Flint River

    Fish Study Tests Health of Flint River

    What we’ve gotten so far is that there are fish that spawn at different times and a lot of them try to move pass the dam and they can’t,

  • Endangered Minnow Plant Scheduled to Combat Mosquitos

    Endangered Minnow Plant Scheduled to Combat Mosquitos

    As their name suggests, topminnows spend the majority of their time close to the water’s surface feeding on plants, small crustaceans and small invertebrates, including mosquito larvae.

  • Mark your calendars for the first of two 2019 Free Fishing Days in California

    Mark your calendars for the first of two 2019 Free Fishing Days in California

    July 6 is Free Fishing Day in California Mark your calendars for the first of two 2019 Free Fishing Days in California, when anyone can try their hand at angling – no fishing license required. If you would like to fish the rest of the year, you can purchase a license online through CDFW’s website.

  • The Klamath dam demolitions, the world’s largest dam removal project

    The Klamath dam demolitions, the world’s largest dam removal project

    In 2021, four large dams on the Klamath River are due to be demolished, in part to revive the river and Klamath Basin salmon.

  • Could desal plants "Restore the Delta"

    Could desal plants "Restore the Delta"

    Some 30 miles north of San Diego, along the Pacific Coast, sits the Claude “Bud” Lewis Carlsbad Desalination Plant, the largest effort to turn salt water into fresh water in North America.

  • Proposed Dungeness Crab Trap Gear Retrieval Program

    Proposed Dungeness Crab Trap Gear Retrieval Program

    The California Department of Fish and Wildlife (CDFW) is developing regulations to implement a retrieval program for lost or abandoned commercial Dungeness crab gear.

  • Added Fishing Opp in California

    Added Fishing Opp in California

    The project is slated to begin in May 2020 and conclude by November 2020.

  • DWR Announces 2019 State Water Project allocation increased to 75 percent

    DWR Announces 2019 State Water Project allocation increased to 75 percent

    This is the final allocation for the calendar year. The initial allocation in November 2018 was 10 percent.

  • 52 Pound Catfish

    52 Pound Catfish

    Daniel M.caught this 52-pound flathead around 11 p.m.

  • Hatchery Steelhead Volunteers Wanted

    Hatchery Steelhead Volunteers Wanted

    Volunteers are needed to help the Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife raise hatchery winter steelhead at Barrett Creek near Winston. This project is an opportunity to work directly with fish and help produce hatchery winter steelhead for anglers.

  • Limits Increased for Sockeye Salmon Bag

    Limits Increased for Sockeye Salmon Bag

    Russian River & Upper Kenai River Sockeye Salmon Bag Limits Increased (Soldotna) for period of time

  • Monster Brown Caught and Released

    Monster Brown Caught and Released

    Paden Flippin caught and released a 36.7-pound brown trout last Wednesday, his 24th birthday, while fishing with friends on the White RIver below Bull Shoals Dam. Paden guides for Cotter Trout Dock but had his birthday off, and he took the opportunity to land this whopper, which he and his friends had been tracking for more than a year. And, as the fish was hauled in and held for this photos, all the guides on the White River around Cotter were ecstatic, we're told.