NOTE: All crab fishing gear must be removed from the water by one hour after sunset on the last day of any fishing period. Crab fishing gear may not remain in the water on closed days.

Fishing & Shellfishing Commercial fishing Commercial Dungeness crab fishery Puget Sound commercial crab fishery 2024/2025 Puget Sound commercial Dungeness crab fishery landings ...

Species & Habitats At-risk species Species recovery and protection Killer whale (orca) conservation and management Killer whale resources and regulations for boaters ...

Species & Habitats At-risk species Species recovery and protection Killer whale (orca) conservation and management Killer whale biology and conservation ...

Orphaned Juvenile Cougars: Within a few days, District 9 staff members received reports of two litters of orphaned juvenile cougars in Klickitat County. The mother of one litter was shot in self ...

Chronic Wasting Disease (CWD): Private Lands Biologist Nizer helped with taking out a CWD sample from a moose that was road killed in the Garfield area. Columbia Basin Mule Deer: Biologists Lowe and ...

District 8 Mule Deer Surveys: District 8 Wildlife Biologist Wampole and Statewide Mule Deer Specialist Bundick conducted aerial mule deer surveys of the Kittitas sub herd of the Eastern Slope of the ...

Mule Deer Surveys: Biologist Fitkin and Manager Troyer conducted annual post-season aerial surveys of mule deer in District 6. Fitkin and Troyer classified well over 2,000 deer covering both the ...