For Immediate Release- The Twin Harbors Fish & Wildlife Advocacy has filed a legal challenge in Thurston County Superior Court to the procedures used by the Washington Department of Fish & Wildlife Department (Department) to set salmon seasons in Washington....
The Advocacy was founded in litigation in 2013 trying to get the Department of Fish & Wildlife to comply with state transparency that forbid meetings behind closed doors when adopting fishing seasons during the process called North of Falcon (NOF) The Washington...
On October 18, 2017, the Advocacy filed a legal challenge to an emergency rule adopted by WDFW that amended the commercial season underway in Willapa Bay. The action taken by the Department was to repeal the requirement that Chum encountered and brought aboard the...
In response to the transparency initiative launch by the Advocacy, KING TV traveled to Montesano and ran a featured story using interviews from local merchants and the members of the Advocacy. The feature was focused on the problems with the secret meetings being...
WDFW Director Jim Unsworth has responded to the Advocacy’s letter to the Department and Northwest Indian Fisheries Commission (NWIFC) requesting the two comanagers open the secret meetings used in the North of Falcon (NOF) process to set tribal and non-tribal...
A “blue sheet” is the term for a written directive to the Department of Fish & Wildlife from the Commission on a subject matter to be placed on the agenda of a future meeting. In response to the Advocacy’s letter to tribal and state co-managers...
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