The US House of Representatives has passed a bill that would redelist gray wolves throughout the Lower 48 states.

Record flooding across parts of Western Washington dealt some WDFW facilities a blow, with significant damage reported to a fishway and a pair of boat ramps, while some coho smolts at a hatchery self-released early after their rearing pond was overtopped by high water, but the big concern is for how it affected wild salmon spawning beds.

Oregon salmon managers make official what last week’s Willamette River spring Chinook forecast reveal foretold: With fewer than 34,000 hatchery fish expected, the two-rod endorsement won’t be allowed.

ODFW reports on the December 12 meeting of the Oregon Fish and Wildlife Commission, which set 2026 groundfish limits, heard about Columbia hook issues, and saw two new members in action for the first time.

Befittingly, it’s a sticky-sharp topic, but Oregon salmon and steelhead fishery managers plan to broach the subject of barbed hooks on the Columbia with their counterparts in Washington over the coming year.