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Learn about how WDFW monitoring for sustainable commercial crab harvest supports local food and livelihoods -- important work to facilitate arrival of Dungeness crab to markets throughout Washington. | Washington Department of Fish & Wildlife

Check out this release! 🐾 In mid-December, the PAWS Wildlife Rehabilitation Center received an adult male bobcat with an injured left paw. Washington Department of Fish & Wildlife (WDFW) brought the bobcat to PAWS for care. Thankfully, after a full exam, our wildlife team found that his injuries were minor, and he retained good use of his paw. After a short stay at PAWS Wildlife, this beautiful bobcat was ready to return home to the wild! 🌲 | PAWS - Progressive Animal Welfare Society

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Fall isn’t just for hunting in Eastern Washington Staff at the Spokane Hatchery, as well as other Eastern Washington hatcheries, started stocking local lakes this week with trout. From October to November each year, 55 truckloads of fish- like this one delivered to Rock Lake yesterday- are put into area lakes in WDFW's Region 1. While these fish are small now, they will be a nice size for catching in the spring. And the fish planted last spring are biting now because trout prefer cooler water te