For Two Decades, the Salmon Count Was Wrong and Puget Sound’s Orcas Paid the Price

For more than 20 years, fisheries managers set Chinook salmon recovery goals, closed fishing seasons, and rationed some ...
Northwest Sportsman Magazine

Puget Sound Summer 2026 Crab Seasons Announced

Dungeness crabbing will open the Thursday before the Fourth of July in several Puget Sound marine areas, a few days later off ...
Hoodline

Puget Sound’s Jaw-Dropping Low Tides Lure Shellfish Fans Into Toxic Trouble

Puget Sound’s big seasonal low tides are rolling in this week, pulling back the water and uncovering miles of sand, mud and rocky intertidal flats. Tidepool fans and recreational shellfish harvesters ...
Seattle Times

A kayaking scientist maps the impacts of climate change on Puget Sound waterways

A SEATTLE FISH SCIENTIST by the name of Brian Footen arrives at Shilshole Bay on a drab but dry May morning wearing blue cargo shorts, mud-stained hiking boots and a fossil gray Patagonia jacket with ...
News Tribune

There are enough spot shrimp in WA waters for extended fishing. These areas will reopen

The Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife announced Monday that several Puget Sound marine areas will reopen for late-season spot shrimp fishing. But shrimpers will only have limited time. The ...