On Tuesday, April 23, 2012, the Joint Management Staff of the Oregon and Washington Departments of Fish & Wildlife released Winter-Spring Fishery Update No. 3, detailing the non-Indian fishing season for Spring Chinook to date. As {read more}

Lori Scott of Naselle, Washington has launched an online petition through Change.org seeking to have Washington Governor Inslee comply with the intent of RCW 77.04.040 by appointing balanced representation on the Washington Fish & {read more}

Rebecca Sedlak of the Daily Astorian wrote a nice review of the 2013 Fisher Poets Gathering that was published Monday, February 25, 2013. The Daily Astorian website generally only allows complete access to its articles on the day of {read more}

One of the back stories of the vote adopting the Kitzhaber Plan by the Oregon Fish & Wildlife Commission is its possible connection to the Umatilla Basin Project, for which Governor John Kitzhaber declared his support at the 10th {read more}

On Saturday, February 16, 2012, Terry Richard of The Oregonian posted several videos of fisher poets reciting short poems at the 15th annual Fisher Poets Gathering in Astoria, Oregon on the Oregon Live website. John Palmes, Dave {read more}

In a photo essay published Monday, February 11, 2013, photographer Motoya Nakamura documents the 15th annual Fisher Poets Gathering in Astoria, Oregon as a preliminary taste for the 16th annual Fisher Poets Gathering, which takes place {read more}

Washington State Representative Jim McCune is a Copper River permit holder who has written a powerful letter of rebuttal to the Kitzhaber Plan to phase gillnets off the Columbia River main stem and into “enhanced” {read more}

The notice posted on Friday concerning the meeting at the Port of Astoria was in error. The regular Port meeting will take place Tuesday, December 18, just as indicated. However, the stakeholders’ meeting to discuss the options for {read more}

The Port of Astoria will conduct a meeting beginning at 6:00 p.m. Wednesday, December 19, 2012 in the old Port offices, 422 Gateway Drive in Astoria. On the agenda will be a discussion of options in response to the gillnet ban adopted by {read more}

The question came recently from one of our fishermen about how to voice his displeasure with Oregon Governor Kitzhaber’s salmon plan. He asked for an email address for the governor. As it turns out, Governors Kitzhaber and {read more}