The chinook salmon fishing options in Puget Sound have just gotten much slimmer as state Fish and Wildlife announced an early closing of south-central Puget Sound. The fishing grounds – excluding ...

The summer salmon fishing season will close after Thursday (Aug. 4) in northern Puget Sound (Marine Catch Area 9). State Fish and Wildlife officials say the preliminary catch estimate for Area 9 ...

(CN) - Puget Sound's Saratoga Passage and Skagit Bay are not within the Suquamish Tribe's historical fishing grounds in Washington state, the 9th Circuit ruled, upholding a ruling for the Upper Skagit ...

EVERETT, Wash. — The Puget Sound is basically the crab fishing capital of the recreational world! It's where weekend warriors and seasoned anglers alike come to fill their buckets with Dungeness crabs ...

There’s solid gold salmon fishing stuff in the new book “A History of Puget Sound Salmon Sportfishing,” by Whidbey Island resident Russ Christianson. If you missed the review in The Herald’s Outdoor ...

Salmon fishing in the ocean off Washington is plugging along in unspectacular fashion, but Puget Sound anglers don't have to travel far to find fish. King salmon are being taken at decent rates from ...

FISHING – State and tribal leaders today reached an agreement on Puget Sound fisheries that is expected to pave the way toward opening summer salmon seasons and waters recently closed to recreational ...

KINGSTON — State authorities allege that a man claiming membership in the Yakama Nation Indian Tribe was fishing illegally in Suquamish Tribe waters near Kingston in an unmarked boat and that a Yakama ...

SEATTLE – As negotiations continue, the Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife temporarily closed recreational and non-tribal commercial salmon fishing in Puget Sound this month after the state ...

OLYMPIA, Wash. (AP) - State and tribal fishery officials said Thursday that after weeks of negotiations they've agreed on a plan that will allow for a 2016-2017 Puget Sound salmon-fishing season.

OLYMPIA — State and tribal fishery officials said Thursday that after weeks of negotiations they’ve agreed on a plan that will allow for a 2016-2017 Puget Sound salmon-fishing season. Recreational and ...

A deal has been reached that will allow the state to open fishing in Puget Sound and waters that feed into it, but will keep recreational fishing in the Puyallup River closed. Dean J. Koepfler Staff ...