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  • Coho salmon fishing limits increased – Starting Oct. 10, people are allowed to catch three coho salmon per day from the Skagit River, according to a rule change by the Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife.

  • Bigger than expected coho run boost catch limit in Skagit River – A larger than expected return of coho salmon to the Skagit River will allow the coho daily limit to increase to three from Oct. 10 through Dec. 31.

  • State Fish and Wildlife Columbia River regional fishing report – Salmon/Steelhead

  • Fish killed in salmon stream after pool water dumped – A fish kill in Vancouver's last wild salmon-bearing stream is being blamed on ignorance. Staff with the Musqueam First Nation say the incident happened during the last week of September. Musqueam fisheries manager Richard Sparrow says fisheries workers noted a strong smell of chlorine coming from Musqueam Creek and found more than 1,000 dead spine stickleback, coho salmon and rainbow trout. The …

  • Hatchery homecoming – Thousands of Chinook and a few hundred Coho salmon return to Issaquah Creek during the annual fall migration. The gates to the fish ladder are down because the hatchery pool above is filled to capacity. More than 1,000,000 eggs from both kings and silvers will be harvested. The Chinook head to Alaskan waters when they leave the hatchery as smolts with only about 2 percent returning as adults …

  • Coquitlam homeowner fined for contaminating stream – A Coquitlam property owner has been fined $500 and tasked with an expensive remediation job after a construction contractor dumped cement wash into a storm drain, killing several coho salmon fry. Crews had finished work on an exposed aggregate driveway in the 3400-block of Roxton Avenue, and washed the excess cement-infused water down a nearby storm drain last week, according to Verne Kucy, the …

  • Everett Coho Derby was one to remember – Volunteers clip and bag coho salmon in preparation to be weighed on Sunday in at the Port of Everett. Almost 1,000 fish were weighed in the adult and kids categories during the two-day competition.

  • Digs for coastal razor clams should start around Oct. 13 | Fishing report – The coho salmon fishing in Puget Sound and Strait of Juan de Fuca remains a hot topic. Now razor clam lovers can start making plans to hit…

  • Area Veterans Organizations Giving Away Excess Coho and King Salmon – Area Veterans Organizations will be handling the distribution of excess Coho and King Salmon throughout Northern Michigan, again this year. Canadian American Fisheries, the contractor for harvesting the

  • Feds announce Central Coast Coho salmon recovery plan – SCOTTS VALLEY — More than 2,000 pages and three volumes, a federal plan to rescue the endangered Central Coast Coho salmon from the brink of oblivion is laid out in staggering specificity.

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