The California Department of Fish and Wildlife is still on the lookout for a specific bear that has taken up residence in an ...

CDFW is also lifting the temporary recreational crab trap restriction beginning Jan. 2, 2026, at 8:01 a.m., between the California/Oregon border and Cape Mendocino (40°10’ N. latitude) and between the ...

The California Department of Fish and Wildlife announced today that protections for mountain lion populations ranging from the Bay Area and the Central Coast to Southern California are warranted under ...

Governor Gavin Newsom last week celebrated a monumental achievement for California as salmon are making a comeback in Northern California. This summer, several juvenile Coho salmon were spotted in the ...

A Northern California fisherman may have set state and world records by catching a canary rockfish he says weighed in at ...

Bellingham, Wash. aluminum boatbuilder All American Marine (AAM) announced it has delivered a new 74-foot catamaran patrol boat to the California Department of Fish and Wildlife (CDFW) Law Enforcement ...

California wildlife officials are now allowing mountain lions to be killed to protect endangered bighorn sheep, changing a nearly decade-long practice of just moving them.

California's commercial Dungeness crab season is set to open on January 5 with limits on the number of commercial traps ...

Concrete raceways sit dry and rust-streaked at the Mad River Fish Hatchery in Humboldt County on Friday, May 2, 2025. The state plans to shut down the aging facility in June, citing escalating repair ...

The start of the commercial Dungeness crab season in California has been delayed further to protect humpback whales from becoming entangled in trap and buoy lines. Dec 8, 2022 Online forum intends to ...

A group of roughly 45 people fishing for crab in San Francisco was interrupted by California Department of Fish and Wildlife officers late last month, the CDFW said Thursday. The department received a ...

The yearling bear cub was severely burned in the Carr Fire in California. A black bear cub that was severely burned when a wildfire roared through her habitat in Northern California is receiving a ...