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- Reminder - Puget Sound crab season closed - Feb 16, 2007 to
- Evening razor clam dig approved for Feb. 16-18 - Feb 8, 2007 to
- Sport clam season closed at West Dewatto (DNR 44-A) - Feb 6, 2007 to
- Sunday added to weekly sturgeon retention season below Bonneville Dam - Jan 29, 2007 to
- Columbia River spring chinook season extended downstream of I-5 - Jan 26, 2007 to
- Open winter fishery on Patterson Lake - Dec 28, 2006 to
- Trout daily limit change for South Lewis County Park Pond - Dec 28, 2006 to
- Green sturgeon retention prohibited in the Columbia River Bonneville Dam - Dec 22, 2006 to
- Smelt seasons set for SW Washington - Dec 22, 2006 to
- Methow River whitefish boundary changed - Nov 28, 2006 to
- Razor clam dig cleared to begin Saturday at four ocean beaches - Nov 28, 2006 to
- Hatchery coho limit increased on Lewis River - Nov 22, 2006 to
- Coho limit increased on Klickitat River - Nov 22, 2006 to
- Hatchery coho limit increased on Washougal River - Nov 22, 2006 to
- Hatchery coho limit increased on Kalama River - Nov 22, 2006 to
- Razor clam dig starts Friday on ocean coast beaches - Oct 31, 2006 to
- Some areas of Puget Sound will reopen to recreational crabbing - Oct 20, 2006 to
- Cowlitz River fishing boundary change - Oct 20, 2006 to
- Cowlitz River coho limit increases - Oct 18, 2006 to